Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-02-02
The New Science.

The New SCtthtts
In brief, it is Intercollegiate Key
whereby man may in time unlock ap-
parently all the mysteries OF matter
hr Armand Ruffer writes in The Nine
tenth Century of some of the things the
new science has already accomplished
for us in the field of preventive medl-
cine.
The establishing of the foundation ,
principles of this new ology required
the researches of specialists in all the
natural sciences. But like every other
branch of science, the discovery OF NIL
crobes antedated by centuries the prac-
tical application of the knowledge.
More than $50 years ago Jesuit father
Athanasius Kircherus, saw under MS
microscope living and moving creatures
in blood, vinegar, cheese and other sub
tances. In 1895 another microscopes
saw and accurately described microbes
in many kinds of organic matter Med
ical cranks of the day even limited that
infectious diseases might be due to these
microbes or germs which were found to
swarm in such numbers in organic
products.
B Now mark you'll No sooner was this
theory propounded than wise man set
in and laughed it TO scorn In the most
sarcastic manner, impaled it on his pen
point as the craziest, cranhest idea
brain of man had ever devised. The
poor little budding theory was unable
to withstand the attack of scientific nd
r ;cule. and hid itself in the darkness, to
e he dug I'D and exalted nearly 200 years
e later as the proudest triumph of scien-
/; tifc discovery in the last half OF the
h Nineteenth century. The moral you
IL can pick out for yourself
81 DR.. Ruffer points out some of the bene-
n fetal results already accruing to medi'
u cine from bacteriology. Pasteur's worB
- in hydrophobia is one. DIR. Joseph LIS
- ter,s wonderful achievements in anti
IS septic dressings and surgery constitute
n another. Antiseptic dressings proven
u blood poisoning, and in some fields o.
= surgery the mortality from this caus
a has been decreased from 10 per cent. u
p less than per cent. By cultivsting tn
he anthrax bacillus and inoculating cattl
w. this dread disease bids fair in time TO D
ey STAMPED out Pasteur has saved tn
'e' makers of wine and beer enormou
y. sums by showing them how to manag
80 the fermentation of these drinks prof.
80 erlv. All the plaques that ravage tn
re- herds and Aocks of domestic ANNA
M. will doubtless in time be annihllate
see through preventive incubation, as OF
en-, of the benefcent results of the wonde
} to full science of bacteriology. To 1t all
is due chemical action.
In Greater even than this is the field tn
TED opens before the miscroscopist. Ba
hat teriologists are now on fair road
ma discovering and isolating the mlcrobe
s." leprosy. IL there can be incubation
ter this, as there is good reason to TIM
its there may be, then one of the terrors
nal 5000 years will be driven from amo
Dnt; mankind. The same will be the ca
and too. with diphtheria, typhoid and scar
ans fever and every other infectious physi'
' as disorder known to man. All these c
asst, be stamped out from among mankn
able Talk of miraclesl
ting The researches on the chemical sunstah
secreted by heterogeneous might also d
iehe Interested the reader. but the question Is
the wide 20 be more than mentioned here. Area
however there are indications to show tha
he7' a short time bacteriOlogists will have dis'
cred ways of curing diphtheria with meth
based on strictly scientific principles
eacb In the preceding lines 1t has been pro
ooo'' thai bacteriology is the direct outcome, no
mot one branch Of knowledge only but OF all
did divisions of natural science, biology, chemi
-. and others But during its growth evel
nSns shed the greatest light on the sciences OF vi
have II IA an offshoot. The first step In bacteria
,,-ho was made through chemical investigate
!" ~ but on the other hand see what tine
the science has done for chemistry. 1t has so
hab- for chemists some of the chief problems
peeted with putrefaction and fermentai
nav problems which we're previously Ia a sts
soil hopeless obscurity. Through bacteria
re. chemists have learned that each kind OF
'ie cific fermentation is due TO specific m
guar organism, which placed under definite C
arva tis,ns PRODUCES definite chaWical susStal
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