Great Falls tribune., 1890-01-01

According to newspaper reports
there are even yet gentlemen writing
IN. D." after their names who say:
the grippe bacillus" That was done
with scientific perfection as long ago as
1885, by DIR. j. H. 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
microscopist, 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 Uena. Prussa) - 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 uthority-recognized and con-
frmed Or. Salisbury's discovery of the
interesting little creature, and honored
it, from 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 III 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 II. The most usual shapes
appear to be either spherical or oval, as seen in
Figs to g. Each frequently sends out pro
boscis, at the end of which is dilated and elop-
gated ciiurn, represented at ID, Is, 10 and II.
This proDoscis may be in the center of the mass of
ella as at Is or 6, or at side at IA and H.
II may be drawn in, leaving nipple like eleva.
tion, as at 10, may disappear entirely, leaving
the organism oval (O or spherical (6). The pro.
boscis often only partially disappears, or is only
partially drawn in, while a construction occurs In
the form, represented at 13 and IA. 1t may be
simply largely dated cilium, as at II and 1S
or the cell walls may go out, forming q more or
less sharp protuberance, as at Is; or the walls
may go still further out, forming more or less
fusform organism as at 16.
The young are developed within the parent cell,
and when mature are discharged at the end Of the
organism opposite the ella, as seen at Fig. IS
The parent becomes quite dilated before deliver
ing; and as the young one is discharged the par.
entl cell becomes shrunken and shriyeed for q
time. The aperture soon, however, Closes the
wrinkled, shryeled 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 l, ., 3, 4, and &, have rolling rock
ing, vibrating motion from side to side, making
about one-thirI of a revelation on the transverse
axis at each oscillation. The more mature cells
either vbrate slightly or have tremulolls mo-
tion their ella not moving altogether as at 8, but
vibrating in different directions.
Sylnptons-.tfter 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
paroxysins of sneezing. The organisms gradually
travel from the nasal surfaces down into the
fauces larynX trachea and larger and smaller
broncb. As soon they reach the fauces there
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