The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-03

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benefit rendered in these cases. The virus
| used in all these public tests" was OF pure
culture OF the microbe, very much attenu-
ated by passing through several animals.
| But the herds inoculated by the same
virus where the disease had not yet broken
out, as was the case near Gibbon, and in
| the case of two herds in Butler County,
out Of 33l hogs none were made percepu-
| bly, sick or taken off their feed by the
| operation. All OF these 33l hogs have
| been exposed more or less, many OF them
| constantly exposed on purpose, to the in
lection by being placed in the same inclos-
ure with sick hogs, and only two have
died OF the disease. So much for
THE PUBLIC NoN.sciENTIFIc TEST.
OF course il has been repeatedly alleged
| during the past month or two that the
herds that died in Butler County soon
after the incubation were killed by the
doctors virus Butler County men, how
ever, who have been witnessing tho tests
made with the hogs of other herds, none
OF which died, though inocuated from the
same bottle on the same day, will not say
80 now. Upon the whole the "public eX-
| pertinent 10 which the doctor was driven
| before hc was ready, under protest, has
| proven everything that lac had up TO that
| time claimed
OF course, in alleging that the inocua-
| ton "killcd" the hogs in those Two or
| three Butlcr County herds, aud that II
| spread the disease" the learned critics OF
Dr. Billings have finally abandoned tho
charge hat they 80 iierccy made, that he
had not found the true germ OF the swine
plague.
Furthermore, DIR. Billings has sent pure
cultures Of the microbc with which he
performed the NEGOTIATIONS on these herds TO
every eminent veterinarian in this country
aud Europe. pure culture, by the way,
* not blood or poisonous matter taken
from diseased swine, but Is the microbc
itself absolutely isolated from everything
but the material, generally pure gclotlnc,
in which II grows without nlndrancc.
Some OF these, and especially
DR. WEIGH, on JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY,
have written that it produces genuine
swine plague aud Is identical with mi
crobcs found invariably 10y them in the
tissues OF animals which have incurred the
disease from infection. This Is the crucial
test. First II must bc found In all animals
known 10 have the disease, second 1t must
produce the disease when introduced in n
pure state into the organism of u healthy
hog 10y way of the stomach or the blood.
In the meantime the doctor has been
pursuing his laboratory experiments At
the station, and is making progress in the
direction Of procuring u vaccine matter
that will not communicate an infectious
disease, but will render the animal inn
munc lie has inuculalcd eight pigs
with material that contains no living
micrObe aud has produced upon these
"A Lao a hlsslt
generally resemble those of the swine
plague. while tdo LESSONS IN the organs
caused mechanically by the working of |
the microbes arr not present lie has for .
two or three months been exposing these
noculutcd animals to infection While /
they have been Ia the company ui other
hogs that have been daily diving of the |
plague, taken both In the nl'u1, way and !
by unliicuustgi iuocula,..u. which kIli,
in three 90 five day-, aud ,l Car they have 4
been - immune ~ the o., in the same |
IUC. Isure that have tgen iU Hru'ltgi. with |
a virus 70 living microbes
Experiment., have aisl h.,n initiated /
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the MNnlH country rescued from the
plague ns the sheep Of Europe have been
saved from anthrax, there are other ami.
nal diseases that the farmers ar, inter.
cstcd in, and which NAV bc exercised by
scientific investigation. Furthermore,
after immunity hls bccn procured by "A |
virus from which there s'no living mi.
ctohc, there Is much work a. be- done by
the chemist IN the way OF PREPARING thc
vaccine matter 30 that il will Keep" and
bc easily transported nt the least expense
a. the stock owner that wishes Ia use IT,
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mcnt station wishes Ia proceed. Having
found the proper yucymlling material is
work will hc done. Tho discovery will
belong 60 the State aud be no patent The
Slate cu either supply the farmers with
vaccine or make public the method OF pre-
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Tie lniyvmliy ought not 90 d, asked 10
carry The cn.ifo load. and lhr amount con.
tnhulcd 90 iho station ly the General
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thrr conducting these experiments.
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