The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-03
WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF TIL
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The scientific world has been greatly
startled and agitated Of late by the discovery
with the microscope of the most dreadful
enemy of mankind in tho form Of myriads Of
little death-dealing parasites The air We
breathe and live in is charged with these
deadly little. srowths in proportion as it
ls infecto from various noxious sources.
Having by recent experiments and research
been shown to be the most fruitful cause
of disease known, and tho welfare and
health of every individual depending 80
largely OF the freedom from their destruc-
tive ravages, it ia but natural that the re-
ports of recent Investigators in this fold OF
scientific inquiry should DO widely read and
that every phase of these astounding disoov-
cries should DO subject to universal discuss
ion. at first rec ,'iyed with some suspicion
they have at length beon thoroughly proven
and arc now receiving tho unqualified in
throughout tho world. But little else is
talked of i'll the schools and clubs of science,
and the medical and scientific journals arc
crowded with the testimony that is being
added corroborative of tho value of tho mar
velous discovery which is pronounced the
greatest advance i'll medical science of mod
orn times.
scientist, who by his learned Investigations
has saved to Franco SO many millions of dol
lars, isprobably duo the honor of first point
ing out tho torrible power of these germs.
In recognition of his grca! service tho govern
ment has recently voted him from tho public
treasury $4,000, with which to continue his
experiments. He has described several va
rieties of tho 20 parasites, some comparatively
harmless others extremely dangerous. Ors
form he proved by serios Of vaccinations
and other conclusive experiments was tho
cause of death of many thousands Of ami
ngcnt in tho death of fowls by cholera. Act
ing Ton the knowledge ho had gained of
the nature of those germs, ho pointed out a
means of relief that speedily prevented n
Irf{, III Il rlali i1,Dt, a.
tation.
TYNDALI, with tho aid of other eminent
English Investigators, mado q number of OK
aminatons of tho floating particles in tho
atmosphere, and found numbers of living
spores capable of producing disease. In dry
and healsEy, localities but fow germs woro
found, anH these of the harmless varieties,
while in }pw damp places, crowded houses
and unheeathy cities, tho poisonous germs
were eXtretAly numerous everywhere.
DR. RuDof.pM Kocu, of Wallstcin, Ger
many, Il ma)l whose work in connection with
tho organifms of contagious diseases has
mado him 4 recognized authority upon the
subject, byEXpermcnting after the methods
of NIILEM{N, has discovered and published
an account of ono of tho most dangerous
varieties, TO which it is proven moro doaths
aro due t3an to any disease incident to tho
human rncc.
He describes it as n simple cellular organ-
ism belonging to tho Same order rs tho buc-
,-tcfio. Nhon dried the germs may, without
losing any vitality, endure great extremes of
temperature. Being rs fno aud ns light as
dust invisible to tho naked oyo, thoy may bo
blown any distance by tho wind or carried
upon tho clothing or body. Like seeds, thoy
may lie for months or years undisturbeu
upon the furniture, floor, carpcts, curtains,
walls, or in tho bcdding, and only requiring
food to wakon into life, develop and grow.
They thrive and 1.-Two i'll tho blood, lymph,
% mucus , and secrctions of tho human
body. When the system is unhealthy
or weak they attack the cells that make up
the animal franc. Any nibuminous fluid
will furnish them with food for growth, and
single drop is sufficient to contain hun
dreds. Examined with microscopes of great
power, which enlarge them so that they can
be seen and studied, they have the appear
anco Of minute rod-lkc bodies having, when
the middle like y bow and straighlon with Il
jerk hat sends them fow times their own
length: At the temperature of tho human
body they are tho most active.
Their power OF increase or reproduction is
remarkably great. Ono germ in n few weeks
time, under favorable conditions, will uiyo
rise to millions: The process is by simple
vents their growth and this is why rofrigera-
ton prevents decay of mcnts and othor ami
NAL foods. Exposed to warmth these small
organisms attack and cat up tho abuminOus
tissues, leaving foul mass. Tho odors so
common to this process arc given on by these
minute organisms, and is about tho only intii-
cation of their presence. This is tho warning
Va
smells. The foul breath, bad ollors of old ores,
ETC., leads man TO avoid thoso germs in Il
great measure, Tho danger of their pres
enco IN tho body can be Imagined whom their
may be readily absorbed into tho system by
breathing air containing thom. They arc
thus drawn into the interior of tho body
through tho long and narrow respiratory
pussngcs of tho throaS Ghost and nose, which
arc lined with soft membrane and covered
with sticky mucus. In this fluid thcy ind
5"ndy iodsmGnt and favorable cond,
growth The h''''t'S "'coidS 'orre"s9 or satarr% ra''
ozscna chronic cltarrh hay fever
etc, arc common manifestations of tho cf
fects of one of the loast harmful of these
germs or microayn'cS. In tho discharges
from tho respiratory passages at such times
thousands Of tho llv1ng animnlcun aro found.
mo FEVER, debility, pains I" in the bones,"
loss OF appetite, ETC., are indications of their
depressing objects upon tho vital organs.
II Is from germs OF slower development,
however, that the grentost danger follows.
10 tho ono most fully described by Koon is
quo moro deaths than to any other known
cause, According TO tho researches of Cur
TER, FLINT and DIEnNr, over eight million
people dlo every year from this cause alone.
inc annual deaths III Franco, England,
was over ono and half millions. In tho
United States and Canada over throo hun
orea tnohsand persons persisted in tho last
year from tho bacillus alone. Tho most
sumption OF tho lungs, but othor organs of
the body arc Liable 10 DO Affected rs they de-
velop slowly but surely in any organ that
may be in q weak or unhealthy state.
II active and healthy, tho liver, kidneys
and bowels have to wonderful extent tho
power OF oxpelling these deadly animalcule
or parasites from the system. And this fact
furnishes an important Indication for the
successful treatment Of all tho long list Of
maladics caused by those PARASITES as will bo
hereinafter she VII.
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Ihe studies OF 1ANCIsCA, IN ominont Italian,
ana WOOD, foRMAD and others, arc interest
ing, as showing tho largo variety of chronic
diseases us heretofore classified, that result
from these germs. Among tho most common
were oliver complaint" biliousnoss or torpid
liver, dyspepsia or indigestion, lung aifec-
tlons, bronchitis, kidney discusses, chronic
dlarrhea, spinal complaint, fovor-sores,
white swellings, hip-joint disease, rhouma-
tlsm, malarial diseases, such ns fever and ague
or intermittent fevor, general and nervous
dCDilitles, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh
or the head or oArn0, many forms of ull-
healthy discharges from internal organs and
all tho various scrofulous affections of tho
skin, glands, bones, joints, etc, including
consumption, Which is but scrofulous dis.
case of the lungs.
In this largo catalogue of apparently wide
ly differing diseases, but really all depending
upon common cause, and therefore natu-
rally to be successfully treated on tho samo
general prinCiD' 'eS. examination IF jbn kloo5