Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-12

vie" WIN the no" II huli'-
pIIss-Those Who Believe in the Germ
Theory Serious Objections
A new movement has been set on foot IN
FIanCe with a View to prart, ,cnIly demon
strate whether conSumptio IN can h- cured or
prevented hy inc. ulation And thus Is
sub Iect OF such widespread interest from
the fact that Onr-seNenth # the whuie pop
ulatIOn OF the earth, one sixth the pOpulI-
tlon of North America bocause 1t Is much
more prevalent in the TEN crate zone are
now actually sufferers fl ON this disease and
are doomed TO die from it With all their
immense practice and the knowledge and
experience that must lee ,alneI i'll 1t. the
the faculty admits, III elect that no remedy
has yet been disco, erei which viii matrrl-
ally check the pr,grrs, OF the di~ras,. and,
therefore, II NJ Nerneuiis experiments
should prove that inoculatlom is Il su 'c,.N,fmi
mode of treatment, popular monument,
many times grauder than the statue If lii
eity, ought to / e erected IN hs honor.
The tuberrle Is Il vegetable deposit on thr
lungs which was discovered IN .>Oi 10y
B8yle and La-nnee introduction Of the
practice of auscultatlon ami the uf the
stethCnCope few years later, Crratei a tu
. beTcuLar public opinion that the little mole
wa, the sole ,aus. Of the disease Irut
NIrChows discoveries in cellular pathology
threw some doubt upon this but most prn.-
titiOners still hold to the iuber, uIar idea,
and tue disease Of that naInr Is what Ne
have TO inquire into. And here comes III
Koch. who, among his Other valuable dis
coveries finds that tha .uberce Is IA germ
which he calls tubercu!ar baciltI, ant thu
new movement III Frame is to tind out "A
way to "attenuatr Or nuke thin the virus
of this germ 70 that it can be used Tor tht
prev entIon of consumption III the same way
a. vaccine is 50 successfully applied TO the
prev entlOu OF smallpox
WILL NEKNuIL'S PLAN SUCCEED.
Now, what are the chances that VI Yer
neuil's plan of IN uCulation will succeei'
TO calculate this one must take the opinions
of the best authorities on the subject, AM
also TO see II the goIm himself has anything
" say. Let US interview the germ When
not riding the breeze IN search Of victims he
may he found at his private lodgings in the
pathological laboratory OF tie College OF
Physicians and Surgeons, corner of Twenty
third street and Fourth avenue There Dr
rudden. the director, keeps him and hi,
cOngeuers IN cages, and feeds them on beef
tea, oysters, blood puddInSs and Other
tinulativc Injuries .After his almost IN
sdtiabIe appetite is apIea>.I. and he can lie
handled without danger, Dr lrudden takes
hlIn out and p,t> him, and cuaNgs hlm TO sit
under the microscope, that the visitor may
have d look at MIN With a maGnlfyIng
power OF NJ diameter-that Is to say, IN
ere sing his size by about ten thousand
umes-one perreives little rod about the
forty se, Ond part of an inch IN length, and
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settN"s pre' 'eh'iFe Ea'Cile III ai Vi tne
insus,sntiI,iIitv aftar , first attach mt in
consumption it is not known at all On
the contrary, there are well known case,
where persons have been cured Of tuber-
culosis in one organ, and have afterward
had it in another-in fact, they we're more
liable to it than those who had never had
II
Then, again, consumption is so inSidious
II takes so long a time tor it to develop,
that it is impossible TO trace it back 10 its
original cause This naturally leads to the
question if 1t is an infectious disease, and
Prof. Blggs emphati ally declares that 1t
Is But 1t requires more intensity and
much longer exposure than any other dis
is whether consumDtion is a sCrofulOus dis