New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-11

Inconvenience. Blood of sheep infected with
tbe anthrax bacillus has been dried, ground 10
imnaIpable dust and kept for years, ana YET
the germs would sprout with energy as soon
90 they found a congenial soil and climate. ln-
dividua pIants are small it is true but the air is
full of different varieties, and Professor
Tyndall has shown that we lnhale some thou-
sands At every breath. 1t takes Al, 200, O0O,Ooo
of diphtneria plants to weigh an ounce Dut
single one will multiply into 2Sl,OO0,Ooo'ooo
in n couple of days. But, after ALL there IL
GOOD reason for cultivating them. IL Is KNOWN
that wild plants, when dOmesticated undergo
soma notifications, and Pasteur, reasoning
from analogy, resolved to make trial WIN
the GERM of spleDic fever, to ascertain IL lie
could ciyize it in any degree by changing us
environment. The success OF his experiments
in growing the plant in warm serum ana soihe
unhappy living things is a matter OF history
nv planting the germ in newborn guinea
MIC and then inOculating with the blood OIL inc
moribund animal an older one, and so on, ne
obtained a crop of disease germs much more
deadly than the original type. For TINS va
riety he had no special use, but he lnterreu
that in this way other diseases developed from
m;Idar into more malignant forms.
On the other hand, by pllnting his seed IN
CHICKEN broth he harvested some benlgnanI
bacilI which hardly sickened the sheep vac
cipotedr with it, This mild form of the dis
ease however, proved a perfect protection
AGAINST ordinary splenic fever, and soon all
France was sending for him to vaccinate It's
Aocks. An enterprising American is now cuI-
tvating the mcr0cOccus and bacterium ferm0 I'D
4. lNana
mesticated form of diphtheria for planting
against the original AMI untamed VIRUS III
il now held that cOwpox is nothing more IMAM
genuine smallpox transmitted from man 10
beast and developed in placid, bovine en-
vironment-a theory which furnishes sclen-
tidc basis for Jenncr's northumberland al
vauccd physicians have high hopes that the
human infant Of the future will he vaccnated
with cultivated" measles, mdmps whooplng
cough and scarlet fever
AgIinst what they style this "inocuation
cr,zer the Observation-Disclosures in England are
protesting with some logic and much
yebemrnce of language. They jeer at
the doctors for their attempt to cure
all diseases by inocuating wish all DIS
oa,os. and ut the veterinarians for marking out
the Aocks and herds and cavalry nnd poultry
of the world for the experiment OF arresting
All m1rrains by giving all murrnins. Ihey
predict universal decay in man and beast II
this cohosDitaling of al diseases in every or
panization is carried out. But the germ cul-
hyators continue to plant, prop tgate and fer
tilize i'm their disease gardens, and wave away
the objections of their alyersares as seuti-
mental rather than scientific. The discussion
over the propriety of cuitivating the various
| kinds of pcstlence has become 50 general and
| violent that it finds place IN Punch where
| thoughtful lady was lately depicted as asking
in AN apOthecary shop for few yellow FEVER
| Germs for her nrohcy, who was about to set out
for Africa. Wh.reuDOn the obliging chemist
bees her to wait until the next mail from
st. Thomas brings the genuine West India
! plants, as he cant recommend the variety
,rown in England. lie will, however, furnish
! her AT once with travellers case OF the SIX
most loathsome and deadly zymOtics, and will
| throw in "A few tropical plaques. And would
| she not like Soma nice, new-crop Aslatlc
cholera, jus, ripe
| Meanwhile more men and women and chill
drcn are dying every day of these prevent
nLlen diseases than OF all others put together
| md yet the human race has more to hope
| for. 40 far as health and comfort are con-
ccrncl. from investigation and experiment III
| the direction we have noticed than from any
Other source. If doubtrr il disposed to
question this, let him sit down in some quiet
place and make an honest effort to realize
what happy world this will be after all the
shakes and aches have been cultivated out of
the yet ndetocted fever aud ague fungus.