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The Organization of the Viscerotome Service of the Brazilian Cooperative Yellow Fever Service¹

Soper, Rickard, and Crawford² have described the history and results of a service, organized as part of the Brazilian Yellow Fever Service, for the demonstration of silent yellow fever foci by means of routine collection and histopathological examination of liver specimens from cadavers of persons dying after an illness of short duration. From the name given to the instrument devised for removal of specimens this Service has been called the "Viscerotome Service." In view of the extension of the Viscerotome Service to several South American countries and the possibility of the application of similar methods in other regions, a description of the administrative procedure of this Service in Brazil may be useful.

¹ The studies and observations on which this paper is based were conducted under the auspices of the International Health Division of The Rockefeller Foundation in cooperation with the Government of Brazil.

² The Routine Post-Mortem Removal of Liver Tissue from Rapidly Fatal Fever Cases for the Discovery of Silent Yellow Fever Foci. Fred L. Soper, E. R. Rickard, and P. J. Crawford, the American Journal of Hygiene, 19: 549–566 (May) 1934.