The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-17
WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF THE
MICROSCOPE.
Discovery of the Most Deadly Enemy Of
ManIxind-The Bacillus and
It's RaFages.


full enemy of mankind in the form of myri-
ads of little death-dealing parasites. The
air we breathe and live in is charged with
these deadly little growths in proportion
as it is infected from various noxfous
sources. Having by recent experiments
and research been shown to be the most
fruitful cause of disease known, and the
welfare and health of every Individual de-
pending so largely on the freedom from
their destructive raYages, il Is bat natural
that the reports of recent Investigators in
this field of scientific inquiry should be
widely read, and that every phase OF these
astounding discoveries should be subject
to universal discussion. At first received
with some SUSPECT on they have at len 9Th been
thoroughly proven, and are now receiving
the unqualified endorsements of the lead
ing scientific men throughout the worlds
But little else is talked of in the schools
and clubs of science, and the medical and
scientific journals are crowded with the
testimony that is being added corrobora-
tive of the value of the marvellous discev-
cry which is pronounced the greatest ad-
vance in medical science of modern times.
To L. PASTEUR, the eminent French
scientist, who by his learned Investigations
has saved to France so many millions of
dollars, IS probably due the honor of first
pointing out the terrible power of these
| germs. In recognition of his great service
the government has recently voted him
from the public treasury 100000, with
which to continue HIS experiments. He
| has described several varieties of these
others extremely dangerous. One form he
proved by a series of vaccinations and
other conclusive experiments was the cause
of death of many thousands oil animals and
herds of cattle: another the active agent in
the death of fowls by cholera. Acting upon
the knowledge he had gained of the nature
of these germs he pointed out means of
relief that speedily prevented spread OF
the diseases and ended their devastation.
TYNDALL, with the aid of other eminent
English Investigators, made a number of
the atmosphere, and found numbers of liv-
| ing spores capable of producing disease.
| In dry and healthy localities but few germs
were found, and these of the harmless va
| TietieS, while in low damp places, crowded
! houses, and unhealthy cities, the poisonous
| germs were extremely numerous every
! where.
| DIR. RUDOLPH Koch, of Wafistein. Ger
! many, man whose work in connection
| with the organisms of contagious diseases
! has made him recognized authority upon
! the subject, by experimenting after the
! methods OF VILLEMIN, has discovered and
/ published an account of one of the most
| dangerous varieties, to which it is proven
more deaths are due than to any disease
| incident to the human race.
/ He describes it as a simple cellular organ
| ism belonging to the same order as the
bacteria. When dried the germs may, with
out losing any vitality, endure great ex-
tremes of temperature. Being as fine and
| as light as dust, Invisible to the naked eye,
/ they may be blown any distance by the
/ wind or carried uf on the clothing or body.
! Like seeds, they may lie for months or
| years undisturbeG upon the furniture, floor,
! carpets, curtains, walls, or in the bedding,
/ and only requiring a proper degree of
warmth, moisture and GOOD to waken into
! life, develop, and grow. They thrive and
| live in the blood, lymph, mucus and secre-
| lions of the human body. When the sys-
| tenn is unhealthy or weak they attack the
| cells that make up the animal frame. Any
albuminOus fluid will furnish them with
! food for growth, and a single drop is suf-
/ fieient to contain hundreds. Examined
! with microscopes of great power, which en-
! large them so that they can be seen and
| studied, they have the appearance of mi
| mute rod-like bodies having, when active,
| some power of motion. They bend in the
middle like a bow and straighten with a
! jerk that sends them few times their own
! length. AT the temperature of the human
! body they are the most active.
Their power of increase or reproduction
! is remarkably great. One germ in few
/ weeks time, under favorable conditions,
| viii give rise to millions. The process is
! by simple growth and division. Cold de-
! stFOys or prevents their growth, and this is
/ why refrigeration prevents decay of meats
/ and other animal foods. Exposed to warmth
| these small organisms attack and eat up
! the albuninOus tissues leaving foul mass.
/ The OdOrs so common to this process are
! given off by these minute organisms, and is
! about the only indication of their pres
enCe. This is the warming of nature and it
| is an instinct to avoid all such smells. The
! foul breath, bad odOrs of old sores, etc,
/ leads man to avoid these germs in great
| measure. The danger of their presence in
| the body can be imagined when their rapid
| increase is considered. a few germs may
! be readily absorbed into the system by
| breathing air containing them. They are
/ thus drawn into the interior of the body
| through the long and narrow respiratory
! passages of the throat, chest and nose,
! which are lined with soft membrane and
! covered with sticky mucus. In this fluid
! they find ready Judgment and favorable
/ conditions for development, increase and
/ growth. The "cOldD or catarTh, OZena or
! chronic catarrh, hay fever, etc, are COM
! mon manifestations of the effects of one of
/ the least harmful Of these germs or mi
4 crOzynaes. In the discharges from the
/ respiratory passages at such times thou
] sands of the living animaIculae are found.
! The fever, debility, pains ''in the bones, +"
/ loss of appetite, etc, are indications of
| their depressing effects upon the vital
! organs.
! It is from germs of slower. development,
! however, THAT the greatest danger follows.
| To the one most fully described by KOCH
! is'due more deaths than to any other known
! cause. According to the RESEARCHES of
! CUTTER, FLINT, and DEJERINE over eight
! million people die every year from this
| cause alone. The annual deaths in France,
| England, Germany and Russia from their
! destruction was over one and half mill
| ions. In the United States and Canada
| over three hundred thousand persons per-
4 ished in the last year from the bacillus
]
/ ing from it is consumption of the lungs,
/ but other organs of the body are liable to
/ be affected as they develop slowly but sure
! ly in any organ that may be in a weak or
| unhealthy state.
! If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys
1 and bowels have to a wonderful extent the
| power of expelling these deadly animalcu-
/ lac or parasites from the system. And this
! fact furnishes an important indication for
/ the successful treatment of all the long list
/ of maladies caused by these parasites as
/ will be hereinafter shown.
The studies of LANCISCA, an eminent Ital-
/ ian, and WOOD, Formal and others, are in
! teTesting, as showing the large va
! riety of chronic diseases as heretofore
! classified, that result from these germs.
Among the most common were silver COM
/ plant" biliousness or torpid liver, dyspep-
/ STA or indigestion, lung affections, bron-
( chitiS, kidney diseases, chronic diarrhOea,
spinal complaint, fever-sOres, white swell
! ings, hip-jOint disease, rheumatism, ma
4 larial diseases, such as fever and ague or
+ Intermittent fever, general and nervous de-
bllitles, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh
/ of the head, or OZaena, many forms of UNI
/ healthy discharges from internal organs,
and all the various scrOfulOus affections of
1 the skin, glands, bones, joints, etc, includ-
/ ing consumption, which is but scrofulOus
/ disease of the lungs.
In this large catalogue of apparently
widely differing diseases, but really all de-
pending upon common causep and there
i fore naturally to be success &lly treated on
+ the same general principles, examination
of the blood and secretlOnS revealed large
numbers Of these parasites, and curiously
/ enough the number bore a direct relation
+ to the severity of the disease, compare
I lively small number being present in mild
I cases and a very large proportion in bad
/ cases. Under the use of the specific treat
ment which they give, and which IS sub
stantiaIly the same as that described and
/ recommended later in this review, the num-
+ Der was seen to steadily diminish from day
/ to day until, with the restoration of health
and bodily strength, they could not be
found at all.
The greatest variety of symptoms were
/ found to accompany their presence, due to
1 peculiarities of the constitution, the part Of