The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-11
eiPnTHERITIc GERMS.
The Latest Discovery Of Pref PAS
teur-A Wonderful Step In the
MISUNDERSTANDING Sc ScfarCR-

The Latest Discovery Of Pref PAS
teur-A Wonderful Step In the
Advancement Of Science:
4 Special cable to the Cincinnati
Enquirer from Paris SAYS: The En-
quirer correspondent found Prcf'
Pastem this afternoon in the magniff-
cent building known as the Pasteurian,
in the rue kJtat, which has been cree
ted by public subscription as 4 feeme-
rial and as a home for the greatest sci
enlist of the age.
"fes," said the professor, with a
pleasant s5fiia; ri think that ! can
give you good news i8f the Buq,sirer::
My able assistants, Drs. Rouex aid
Yersirs, have discovered the germ of
the dreadful disease, diphtheria, which
potDehates such terrible ravages dur
ing the Writer hi Your large cities.
believe it exists in more Fieiert form
in the United States than it does in &iiy
other part OF the world. My assis-
tants have taken pieces of the diseased
tissue or membrane from the victim
and have iR6duiated several animals
Herewith. All Of the latter have in
due c6urse died OF disease displaying
all the objective sy'tdptGnas of diphthe=
ria, that terrible destroyer Of Child
life. So far so good. But the oppO-
nents of the microbe theory in epidemic
diseases then argued that these expert
metits enly Showed the terrible viru-
lence of the Original psison. 70 ans
wer this my young scientific assistants,
by means of q series of glass tubes,
diluted the morbid tissue to an infinite
sinai amount. A germ was then taken
from the final fesuht, and rabbit was
inoculated herewith, which immeli-
ately died as quickly as the first victim
in the cause of science, before the dilu-
tioif Of the virus"
This is how re stand" continued
Prof. Pasteur. We have found the
deadly germ, but we have not as yet se-
cured prophylactic for its cure or
prevention. My conferrees are now at
work solving tl1s problem, and from
their success so far in this original
field of research | have but little doubt
but that the inoculating fluid will soon
be forthcoming. We can give diphthe-
ria to any humber OF rabbits and dogs
and kill them as sffectually as though
they had caught it first hand In the
regular course of events. | have not,
however, succeeded yet in attennuat-
ing the virus and cannot inoculate. |
wish you would lay great stress on
this point because | know the cirula-
ton of the enquirer and the wonder
full receptivity of the American people
for news and ideas, and l am afraid
tfab whole ship loads of your country
men will be coming over to secure, by
a visit to the Pasteurian Institute, i'm
munity from diphtberia affections.
Tell them, please, that we are not
ready for business yet, but that per-
paps we will be in the summer"
As the correspondent turned to leave
DR.. Pasteur submitted to his inspection
his glass tubes filled with deadly
germs, microbes and bacilli of many
diseases to which the flesh is heir. In
! doing so the professor remarked, with
a smile: "Our children are in luck.
1t will be much pleasanter. to live in
the twentieth century, when epidemics
will be done away with