Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-12-28

According 10 newspaper reports
there are even yet gentlemen writing
an. D." after their names who say:
1--WE hope we shall succeed in locating
the grippe bacillus" That was done
with scientific perfection as long ago as
1865, by DR.. J. II. Salisbury, of New
York city. DR.. Salisbury was in charge
of the state laboratory Of New York,
under the state geological survey, from
1S46 to 1854, is known to scientists all
over the world as an eminent living
microscopic, and has treated many
thousands Of cases Of this disease. As
long ago as 1878 he gave to the world.
through DIR. Hallier's "Zeitschrift fur
Parisitenkunde (Jena, Prussia) = the
worlds leading journal Of microscopy
the results Of his long continued and ex-
haustive study of the animalcular organ
isms causing this disease, named by him
estimates ciliaris. w. Saville Kent's
great "Manual of the Infusoria"--three
large volumes published in London in
1882, and universally recognized as the
highest authority-recoguized and con-
firmed Or. Salsbury's discovery of the
interesting little creature, and honored
it, from a scientific point of view, as the
first and only known representative of
the genus asthmatos (the name given to
it by its discoverer).
DIR. Salisbury's article in The Zeit-
schrift fur Parisitenkunde gave the
name "infusorial catarrh" to the dis
ease, and presented the following por-
traits OF asthmatos ciliaris--its cause.
The descriptive article contributed by
him to the journal in question was as
follows:
Infusorial catarrh Is purely parasitic disease,
arising from a peculiar animalcular organism
armed upon one side with ella This organism
assumes n great variety Of shapes and sizes. BY
watching its development and metamorphoses I'm.
der the microscope, 1t may be seen to transform
itself into all the different forms represented In
the figures from to IL. The most usual shapes
appear to be either spherical or oval, as seen In
Figs. to g. Each frequently sends out q pro-
boscis. at the end Of which Is diated and elon-
gated ciium, as represented ut II, Is, 10 and IL.
This proboscs may be In the center Of the mass Of
cilia at 15 or 16, at side, as at IA and H.
II may bo drawn IN, leaving nipple like eleva
tion as at 10, or may disappear entirely. leaving
the organism oval (O or spherical co.. The pro-
boscis often only partially disappears or Is only
partially drawn in, while construction occurs In
the form, represented at Is aud II. It may be
simply o largely dilated cilium, as at II and 12
or the cell walls may go out forming more or
less sharp protuberance, as at Is; or the walls
may go stiI further out forming more or less
fnsiform organism, as at H.
The young are developed within the parent cell.
and when mature are discharged at the end Of the
organism opposite the ella, as seen Mt Fig. 10
The parent becomes quite diated before deliver.
ing; and as the young one Is discharged the par
entl cell becomes shrunken and shriveled for a
time. The aperture soon, however, closes, the
wrinkled, shriveled condition Of the sac walls dis
appears and the parent moves about again, fresh,
plump and lively as ever. The ella are In active
motion during the greater part OF the life exist
ence Of the animal, and produce most aggravat'
ing irritation OF the mucous surfaces The young
organisms 1, q 8, as and Q. have q rolling rock.
ing, vibrating motion from side to side, making
about one-thrd OF O revolution on the transverse
axis at each oscillation. The moro mature CELL
either vibrate slightly or have q tremuous mo
tion their ella not moving altogether as at but
vibrating In different directions
Symptoms-After once obtaining foothold on
the mucous surfaces OF the air passages they
multiply rapidly. At first they attack the mucous
surfaces OF the eye and nose, causing FREQ secre
ton Of tears and thin mucus, and often Intense
paroxysms Of sneezing. The organisms gradually
travel ryom the nasal surfaces down into the
fauces 1arynx, trachea and larger and smaller
bronch As soon a. they reach the fauces ther'