Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-11-21

ing heat for some time in cans, al,
tight, and then sealed hot, never mould
have mites OF decay if the operation is
well performed. But if the air gets in,
organic life is bound to 60 with it,
and the articles afe likely to spoil.
In experimenting on light, Prof. Tyn.
dali found that the minute dust. visi-
bic when beam efligEt enters dark
ened reo.A through shutter, is mostly
organic matter and combustible which
was proved in this way; Light passing
through closed glass tube filed With
common air revealed the presence Of
much dust; but the same air passed
through red platinum tube as it went
into the glass, revealed no dust and
was perfectly opake. Fire had con-
sumed the organism in the ,red-hot
metal. Air passed through d stopper
Of cotton into q glass tube left
these seeds in the fbers. The
microscope revealed many spores
in the cotton. Only small part of the
invisible seeds that fill the air we breath
is harmful, or more so than common
mould and mildew; yet some of them
attack not only wheat and other cereals,
cotton and fruit, but every other plant
and every animal kept BY the farmer
down to his Bees and house flies. When
d farmer washes seed wheat in blue
stone water, he kills the germs of liv.
ing parasite. When gardener burns
sulphur ii green house or grapery he
accomplishes the same object. When
he feeds hogs salt and ashes
he still does the same.
The real error lies in too often and gen.
orally neglecting to destroy the worms
In his garden, orchard and fields, the
lice on hogs, cattle, poultry and apple
trees, and the numerous parasites in
his children. Every sore on the body
is exposed to them, and like maggots
in bad wound, they promote un-
healthy suppuration, weakness, and the
contamination of the blood. Prof.
Tyndall proved that air expelled from
the bottom of his own lungs, tested by
light in a glass tube, had lost in his
system fsire-tenths of the organ
isms in the atmosphere inhaled
Certainly the air we breathe, the water
we drink and the food we eat must be
studied a little before we can reasona-
bly, hope to be exempt from disease of
some sort. The germs or seed of chol-
era have been planted and cultivated
the past summer by DR.. Ernst Halter,
of jena. The matter is thus referred
to by DR.. Barnard, President of Col
umbia College, New York City.
''Dr. Ernst HALTER, of Jena, who has
published largely on this subject, and
has made himself prominent as an adj
vocate of the germ theory, has describ-
ed large variety Of vegetable forms,
found by him in diseased men and an
imals, many of which he has subjected
to sytematic cultivation, in order to
study their modes of development. A
new and peculiar fungus, found in the
rice-water discharges of the cholera
patients, and within the intestinal canal
Of such persons, has been cultivated by
him with special attention. This plant
is described as being as marvellous for
the rapidity of its development as for
its strange form of growth, and its ter
ribly fatal destruction of the epithelial
tissue of the intestines. 1t is called by
Profs. ThoTne and Kobe the cyliqs-
lrOtGniacna, but is regarded by DR..
Simon and DR.. Harris as being an ex-
otic member of the family to which be-
Long the urocystic and oidiun1 blights
Of cereals and fruits"
The oidium is the parasite that rots
grapes so badly in the South, and
cholera blight comes back to that and
our wheat blight.