News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-05
WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF THE
MICROSCOPE,
Discovery of the Most Deadly Enemy of
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| startled and agltaJ6u OF lat6 Dy the uI7SN1
with the microscope of the most dreaqIut
enemy of mankind in the form of myrladS OF
| little death-dealing parasites. Inc ar we
| breathe and live i'll Is charged with lHeSe
deadly little growths in proportion as II
! is infected from various noMouS sources
| Having by recent experiments ana research
been shown to be the most fruitful cause
of disease known, and the welfare anu
health of every individual depending SO
largely on the freedom from their u67Iruc-
tive ravages, it is but natural that the re-
ports of recent investigators III this uelu oL
| scientific inquiry should be widely read, ana
that every phase of these astounding dlscoV-
cries should be subject to universal discuss
! ion. At first received with some Suspicion
they have at length been thoroughly proven
and are now receiving the unquallned III
dOrsement of the leading scientific men
| throughout the world. 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 beng
added corrobOrative of the value of the mar
| velous discovery which is pronounced the
greatest advance in medical science OF mod
ern times.
To L. PAsTEUR, the eminent French
| scientist, who by his learned Investigations
has saved to France so many millions OF DOL
! lars, is probably due the honor of first point
ing out the terrible power of these germs.
| In recognition of his great service the govern
ment has recently voted him from the puDnc
treasury SlU,UAb, WIN winch 10 COlllllltC no
experiments. He has described several va
! rieties of these parasites, some comparatively
| harmless, others extremely dangerous. one
form he proved by a series of vaccinations
| and other conclusive experiments was Inc
| cause of death of many thousands OF AMI
mails and herds of cattle; another the active
agent in the death of fowls by cholera. Act
| ing upon the knowledge he had gained of
the nature of these germs he pointed out
! means of relief that speedily prevented
| of naS r nd ended HpVaS-
tatiOn.
TYNDAII with the aid of other eminent
! English Investigators made number Of ex-
aminations of the floating particles in the
| atmosphere, and found numbers of living
spores capable of producing disease. In dry
and healthy localities but few germs were
found, and these of the harmless varieties,
while in low damp places, crowded houses
and unhealthy cities, the poisonous germs
were extremity numerous everywhere.
DR. RUDOLPH Koch, of Nallsteln, Ger
many, a man whose work in connection with
the organisms of contagious diseases has
| made him a recognized authority upon the
| subject by experimenting after the methods
| of VmLENIN, 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.
| ism belonging to the same order as the buc-
terra. W hen dried the germs may, without
losing any vitality, endure great extremes 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
upon the clothing or body. Like seeds, they
may lie for months or years undlstUTbed
upon the furniture floor carpets, curtains
walls or in the bedding, and only requiring
A proper degree of warmth, moisture and
food to waken into life, develop and grow.
They thrive and live in the blood, lymph,
mucus and secreuOns of the human
body. When the system 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 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
anCe of minute rOd-lke bodies having, when
active, some power of motion. They bend in
the middle like a bow and straighten with a
Jerk that sends them a 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 a few weeks
time, under favorable conditions, will give
rise to millions. The process Is by simple
growth and division. Cold destroys or pre-
vents their growth, and this is why refriGera-
ton prevents decay of meats and other AM
NAL foods. Exposed to warmth tn ase small
organisms attack and eat up the albumlnOus
tissues, leaving a foul mass. The OdOrs sc
common to this process are given OIL these
minute organisms and is about the only indi
cation of their presence. This Is the warning
Ofnature and it Is an instinct to avoid all STlcf
smells The foul breath, bad OdOrs of old sores
etc, leads man to avoid these germs III {
great measure. The danger of their pres
| ence in the body can be imagined when thelI
| raDid 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 muCu5. In this fluid they hnl
ready Judgment and favorable cnndi-
tions for development, increase anC
! growth. The " cold - or catlrrh
ozena or chronic cltarrh, hay fever
etc, are common manifestations of the eff
| fects of of the lelst harmful of those
germs or nIicrozynieS. In the discharge
from the respiratory passages at such time:
thousands of the living animalcul8 are found.
The fever, debility, pains in the bones,
loss of appetite, ETC., are indications of their
depressing effects upon the vital organs
1t 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 CUT
TER, FLINT and DEJERINE, over eight million
people die every year from this cause alone.
The annual deaths i'll France, England,
GERMANY anu hu~Sld from InGlr OBSTRUCTION
was over one and half millions. in the
United States and Canada over three hun
dred thousand persons persisted n the last
year from the bacillus alone. The most
common disease resulting from it Is con-
sumption of the lungs, but other organs of
the body are liable to be affected as they de
yelOp slowly but surely i'll any organ that
may be in weak or unhealthy state.
If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys
and bowels have to a wonderful extent the
| power of expelllng these deadly animalC,ilte
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 Italian,
and NOoD, Formal and others, are interest
ing, as showing the large variety of chronic
| diseases as heretofore classified, that result
from these germs. Among the most common
were liver complaint" biliOusness or torpid
| liver, dyspepsia or indigestion, lung affec-
tions, bronchitis kidney diseases, chronic
diarrhea, spinal complaint, fever-sores,
I white SwelllngS, hIp-JOInt disease rheuma-
| tlsm, malarial diseases, such as feverand ame
| or intermittent fever, general and nervous
| deb1lItIeS, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh
of the head or OZpna, many forms OF un-
healthy discharges from internal organs. and
| all the various ScrofuIOus affections Of the
skin, glands, bones joints, etc. including
| consumption, which Is but scrOfulOus dis
ease of the lungs.
In this large catalogue of apparently wide
ly differing diseases, but really all depending
| upon a common cause, and therefore natu-
| rally to be successfully treated on the same
| general principles examination of the blood
| and secretiOns revealed large numbers of
these parasites, and CuriOuSly enough the
| number bore direct relation to the
severity of the disease a cOmpar-
atively small number being pres
| ent in mild cases and very
! large proportion in bad cases. Under the use
! of the specific treatment which they give,
! and which Is substantially the same as that
described and recommended later Ill this re-
| view, the number was seen to steadily dimin-
ish from day to day until, with the restora-
ton 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
! peculiaritieS of the constitution, the part of
the body most seriously affected, and the eff
forts of the different organs to rid the system
| OF these germs. Among the most common
| were frequent headaches, neuralgia pains,
| nausea, constipation, poor or variable appe-
! tiles, diarrhea, bad breath, hectic fever
cough, night-sweats, cold extremities.
| dyspepsia, catarrh, sore throat, sore
| eyes, etc, while where the skin was
! affected, salt-rheum, bOis, carbun-
cles, scurf skin, erysipelas, st. Anthony's fire
| and other symptoms were common, and all
! gradually but with certainty were cured by
| the same means. The hectic fey er so often
| met with Ill consumption, with the hacking
| or tearing cough, night Sweats, diarrhea,
| and other symptoms due to the efforts of ma
! tUre to throw off and cXpel these germs were
also readily controlled and cured i'll the
| same way as were the old sores, assesses.
| and ulcers in the lungs, liver and other I'M
! pOrtant organs.
The corrosive acids and mineral poisous