Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-05-18
The Living Parasite.

totilo exact nature OF the disease
Without such knowledge, all efforts
to apply remedy arc but leaps
in the dark, Just as liable to work
injury as good The discovery by
an eminent French physician of
the parasite, or bacciIli, from
which eruptive ifevors are germi-
mated, led the way for the dis
covery of remedies which have
well nigh robbed all such diseases
Of their terrors, and which make
science master Of the situation.
The investigation of Professor
Koch, the great German physician,
into the origin and development
of tubercu!ar diseases, as detailed
by such an authoitrity as Professor
'Findall and treated seriously by
the British Medical News, but
lends the way in mighty revo-
luton by which that most waist
ing and fatal of diseases may yet
be made to yield as readily to the
physicians skill as TO the most or
dinary fovcrs. 1t has been de-
monstratcd, by tests on animals
and the regular operation in the
dlssecting room that consumption,
pneumonia, phthisis, and similar
diseases are caused by the pres
ence of a poisonous parasite,wh
continues its depredations upon
tho lung until it results in tho death
of its victim. The further fact has
been demonstrated that in many
ways these diseases are commu-
nicablc, the most remarkable case
being one in which the disease was
introduced through the aqueous
matter of the eye. Now for the
remedy. 1t surely cannot be that
the medical skill Of The world hav-
ing a positive knowledge Of the
causc'oi, the discasc,will fail to find
a means of killing the parasite, or
by some sort OF incubation, great
ly lessen the danger from the raw
;,,cs of consumption. The fact
tn nearly onc-third OF the adult
deaths of the world are due solely
to lung diseases, makes the new
field Of inquiry one Of great inpor-
tancc. If Professor Koch can
continue his developments from
the discovery Of the parasite to
tho coumpouning of remedy to
kill it, his name will dcservetly
rank with those Of .Icnncr and
and Pastcur.-Atlanta Constitu--
ton.
Tho Washington Post says
that the justices have unanimously
agreed TO ovcrrulc the exceptions
in the Guitcau case and affirm the
Judgment of the Court below.
The New York, Texas and
Mexican Road has been com
pIctcd to Victoria, Texas, a dis
tancc Of 100 miles from Roscn-
burg Junction, The initial point of
tho road. The Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fc Road was opened yes
tcrday for traffic to Lampasas.
SAN FRANc1sco, May 5,-Dr. H.
II. Hubbard, late Surgeon Gcncr-
al Of the Confederate army, died
here this morning, aged 80 years.
NEW YoRK ay I2. The Her
aid SAYS: "Thc Cotton Exchange
has received a letter from Oldham,
lIngand, intimating that the cxpla-
nation that the sand found in
American cotton was blown there
by the wind is not satisfactory"
The President has appointed the
following board of visitors to at
tend the annual examination ofthc
Naval Academy on the ISt OF
June next: Commodore S. r.
Franklin and Capt G. p. johnson
United states navy; N. Nj. Hub.
bard, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; vii
liam a. Courtcnay, Charleston
5. C.;Gcn. Aaron Il. Stevens, Mas
hua, N. H.; Charles " atrous, 0
Now York.
WAsnlSGroN, May I2.-TEt