The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-21

Horatio C. Wood, who gave the result oil
his researches in connection with DR.. Hen
nv +. Formal, involving tho important us
coyery that this fatal and insidious disease
is propagated by microscopic pant UT
fungi, existing in all human beings
especially in the mouth and throa''
but lacking the power oil repro
duction until given increased vitality by
those disordered conditions Of the mucous
membrane which attend sore throat when
caused by cold Tho Investigations were
made at the instance of tho national Doatu
of health, and extended not only 10 the
phenomena attending the Ordinary eli-
demic diphtheria existing in Philsuel'
Ma but 10 the more violent form
occurring from time 10 time IN DIR
fcrent nioccs. DR.. Formal visited an in
fectcd town on Lake Michigan, where one
third of all the children in a marshy dlS-
trirt died of the epidemic, and brought PACK
win him specimens of the diptheric virus,
srvrral of the false membranes, which are
invariably formed in the Threats of afflicted
persons, and portions OF Their Viscera'
Iln all blood, sad the professor
! there are two kinds OF cor
! puscles. the rcd or color-SiVihS ana
| the Whlte. by CuTolul :1"uy ~ -
ments. both in human beings and the lower
animals il was found that thisintinitesimal
plant hstcus upon the white corpuScles
I and multiplies its cells, altering their char-
actor until with the interior destroyed
thcy burst and the plants set loose
In an irregular mass, separate ana 20 on m
, u. a'l 10 continue the destructive
u,,.p l "n 3tbcr corpuscles, Thus increased
th"y roisnn theblood, choke the vessels and
ore f6lnd In myriad numbers IN thc spleen
lund hone marrow, where the oloou Is man.
uflrtrrod. Prof Wood'sinveStiSauonSSi SNOW
lthal The false membrane, suppose p"
invariably indicate the presence Vi uPliI
ria NAV he caused by ammonia, 'Ea'. ~
nv or any other irritating lhIlur"Gg iHo
throlt 81 that ia presence ~ no. aIll1le
osimIi,,tinr thc existence Ot this disease.
I'M in luy case the false membrane IS
hnilt mn by this parasitical plant, Which
oroy, and multiplies upon us lhha'eu sur
rnnndinps whatever may I've lts cause; "
il whom fhc plants grow strong enough 10
cvtord 10 tnr blood, either poisoning II
tbcmsslyes or carryisg the poison WIN
dion, that diuhthcria sets in. rms ittie
plant is exactly the same as touliu upon upon
= coated tongue. When Professor WOOD
put plants such as arc found upon allSalIliy
Tongue in stcriliHed mn0er ulty inhou w.
grow. On tho contrary, plants ron NY
w yatR'' d III multiplied rapidly
The practical result of the inyest dS2ntRH
pointed Out was the possibility tha' dipvGSe o
ri,. ifetistinr theories hold Goou' may pe
nrnvnnlnd Inv artificial vaccination. IT. me
a HFssS Of spl oa fever caught from animals
which has been proved TO originate III
Somewhat similar plant, ra'tcgT Imo.o found
that The plant, when exposed a
Sufficient time to-thc air, by the action Of
oyscn loses its poisonous character, ana MA
when chen introduced inio the VI system ,!Gr =,
makes the animal sick but Is no ln9 + ,ho Ia
"microaociN may in time be cultivated SO
viii be no longer subject to the e., disease ss,r in
It's fatal form ConcIqdng lho Iec' Daii
ib,t i thc4c discoveries could never have been
made but for the aid of yiyisectioin, AGAINST
which there is foolish prejudice in the
minds ofmany.- philadelphia Times