Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-01-03

According to newspaper reports
there are even yet gentlemen writing
IN. D." after their names who say:
"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
1916 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 DR.. 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
asthmatos ciliaris. w. Saville Kent's
great Manual of the Infusoria"
large volumes published in London in
1882, and universally recognized as the
highest authority-recognized and con-
firmed DR.. Salisbury'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).
DR.. 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 peculiar animalcular organism
armed upon one side with ella. This organism
assumes great variety Of shapes and sizes By
watching its development and metamorphoses un-
der the microscope, it 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 & Each frequently sends out pro-
boscis, at the end of which is q diated and elon-
gated cilium, as represented at ii, 15 16 and II.
This proboscs may be in the center of the mass of
ella, at 10 or 49, or at one side, at II and H.
1t may he drawn in leaving nipple like eleva-
ton, as at 10, or may disappear entirely, leaving
the og.,G.sm oval 90 or spherical CD. The pro-
boscis often only partially disappears or is only
partially drawn in, while q construction occurs In
the form, as represented at 13 and IA. It may be
simply q largely dilated cilium, as at II and 49,
or the cell walls may go out, forming more or
less sharp protuberance, as at 10; or the walls
may go still further out, forming more or less
fusform organism, as at 1G
The young are developed within the parent cell
and when mature are discharged at the endof the
organism opposite the ella, as seen at Fig. 1a
The parent becomes quite dilated before deliver
ing; and as the young one is discharged the par
enl cell becomes shrunken and shriveled for o
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 EXIT
ence Of the animal, and produce most aggravat
ing irritation Of the mucous surfaces. The young
organisms l. ., g. 4, 5 and 6, have rolling, rock
ing vibrating motion from side to side making
about one-thid Of a revolution on the transverse
axis at each oscillation The more mature cells
either vibrate slightly or have q tremulous mo-
don their ella not moving altogether as at 8, 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 free secre-
ton Of tears and thin mucus, and often intense
paroxysms of sneezing. The organisms gradually
travel from the nasal surfaces down into the
fauces larynx, trachea and larger and smaller
bronchii AS soon as they reach the fauces there