The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-11-05
The Germ Theory of Disease.
(CONTINUED).
By c. 0.

While Tyndall was trying his expert
ments, other scientists were expert
menting in other directions. l will give
an experiment performed by J. E.
Richardson, of the University of Penn
sylvania, in his own words cat 745 pm.
I drank four fluid ounces of water con-
tanning multitudes of bacteria. At a
quarter past eight examined a drop of
blood drawn from the tip of my finger,
and confined between a slide and cover,
cleaned with strong hydrochloric acid.
Under the field of the l-25th inch OF
jective, the interspaces between the rows
of blood corpuscles were found to contain
multitudes of apparently spherical mole
cules in rapid and erratic motion, but so
very minute as to readily escape notice
even with this high power, except under
the closest scrutiny. At 8 pm. another
drop of blood examined with the same
precaution, exhibited, in addition to the
minute particles, other bodies, less active
in their motions, Of much greater magn-
tude, and which, under an amplifcation
of l,l00 diameters, appeared precisely
similar to the bacteria | had been
studying few hours before in the identi-
cal decomposing beef juice imbibed."
He then goes on to state how he watched
the organisms, and even measured them,
until he was convinced of their identity
with the bacteria.
Here then-i...was proven that these
organisms, when taken in the human
system, could vegetate and multiply very
rapidly in the blood. Now, then, it only
remained to trace out these organisms in
the blood of those attacked with the
various diseases and demonstrate their
causative powers. This has been done in
a few cases only, as yet; nevertheless,
those few cases are significant. Obermeier,
of Berlin, detected a minute fungoid
growth, spirillium in the blood of
patients suffering with relapsing fever,
and Prof Stricken, of Vienna, fully con-
frmed the testimony. DR.. Orth, of Got
tingen, found that the grey coating on
wounds affected with gangrene was, in the
main, made up of the septic organisms,
and he asserts that in metastatic assesses
and, probably, in carbuncles and bols
the starting point is found in small
artery plugged up by wandering mass
of fungus spores. 1t has also been found
by Prof, Z. Klein, of London, that
bacterium taken from hogs affected with
a disease sometimes called typhoid fever
can be cultivated in fluids for eight CON
secutive generations, and then, will produce
the disease in healthy animals on being
introduced into their systems. And itw
also found by M. Chauveau and DR..
Sanderson that the active element in
vaccine matter consists of minute fungoid
plants the 100000 of an inch in diameter
Experiments have also proven that sheep
pox and glanders are due to minute living
particles.
One of the most beautiful examples of
the fatal effects of fungus on animal life
is found in fly killed by the Empusa
mvsc@. Many of my readers have, perhaps,
noticed dead flies on the window pane with
thin gauzy film or circle around them.
If one of these is examined under the
microscope, it is found that tiny forest
of fungoid growth stands out like velvet
from the dead insect. This little forest
is in fruit and thousand upon thousands
of the seeds or spores are seen. These
} spore bearing tilaments are but the
branches of the plant that fill the whole
, cavity of the body, like cotton wool