Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-22

III NAN.AH u ~ AAAANNA tNAWAN AAf ny
whereby man may in time unlock ap-
pirently all tho mysteries Of matter.
Dr. Armand Runcr writes Ia Tho Nine
tconth Century Of Hoino u the things the
now science has already accomplished
for VA ia the field Of preventive mcdi.
cine
Tho establishing Of tho foundation
principles of this now ology required
the researches Of specialists Ia an the
natural sciences. But Ike every other
branch Of SCIENCE, the discovery Of mi.
crobca an.cdnlol by conurios the prnc.
tical application Of the knowledge.
Moro than o3O years ago Jesuit fathor
Athnnndus Kigehorus, saw under his
microscope living and moving creatures
Ia blood, vinegar, chog and other sub
tancca. IN 1893 another microscopic
saw and accurately dcssribod microbes
Ia many kinds OF organic matter. Mod
heal craul.s of the day oven hiniod that
infectious diseases might b. duo TO chose
microbes or germs which were found TO
hNhih ia thNh hNlluaih AA 'AbNiAs
products.
Now mark youl No sooner was this
theory propouudod Than u Nyiso man sct
Ia mud laughed It 10 srom IN the most
sarcastic manner, impalol II on his pen
point 40 the cnziost. crankioat idea
brain OF man had ever devised. Tho
POOR l,ilo budding theory was unable
10 withstand the attach; Of scientific nd.
iculo, aud hid itself Ia the duluoas, TO
be dug up aud exalted nearly 80 years
later rs tho pr1udcst triumph Of scion.
tido-discovcsy In tho last half Of tho
Ninotc,uih century. Tho moral you
can pick out for yourself
Dr. Runcr points out some OF tho bone
fetal results already accruing 10 iQcii-
elmo from bactcuology. Pastclr'a work
IN hydrophobia 80 one. DR.. Joseph Lis
| tors wonderful achievements ga anti.
septic dressing, aul surgery constitute
another. Aut.sup,lo drca7iugs prevent
blood poisoning, and in some fields OF
surgery tho mortality from this cause
has bo3n decroaaud from 10 Per cent. 70
lcss than per cent BY culuyaiing the
anthrax bacillus and iuocuiating cattle
this dread disease bids fair la thne TO h.
stamped out pnrtcur has saved Tho
nnlom of vino and beer enormous
num8 by showing thom how 90 manage
tho fermentation Of these drinks prop
Urly. All the plagugl that rlyago ia,
herds aud focks OF domestic animal'
will doubtless In time be auniuilatoi
through preventive incubation, as ON,
OF tho heH1lccn, results OF tho wonder
ful science Of bactorology 10 ig alsC
Is duo chemical acuoa.
Creator oven than this Is tho field that
opens before tie misor1scopibt. Bac
toriologists arc now ON fair road {,
discovering and isolattug the microbo Of
loproy. II thcro cIn be incubation fol
this, as there Is good reason 10 thinl
thcrc mny ba thn one Of the torroFs o
5000 years will be driven from amons
mankind The same will DO the case
too, with diphthoyia, typhoid and scarla
fever and every other infectious phygicl
disorder known TO man. All these cat
10 stamped out from among mankind
Talk Of miracles!
The rcsoarrhca on tho chemical substance
ecrrctcd by miCfn-org1uismH might also hlV
Interested tho reader, but the question Is 10
wide 10 be inofc than mentioned here. Already
however, there afu Indications 90 show that d
"a short Tins bsctoriD'ugi-ts Will have dsgoy
crod Ways ~ curing dinhiheriA with method
based on strictly scientific principles.
In the preceding lines u has been prove
that hnctcri1lOgy Is the direct outcome. not o.
one branch u knowledge only, but ~ lll th
divisions ~ natural science, biology. cheWIstr
and oihcfs. But during ~ growth even
shed the greatest lightonthr sr.gnccBof wli-
Il J. an otshuot. The hfst step In hactrrio,og
WIS made through cAcaiCsl iuyUstigat.0n.
but on the other baud, go what tho ne,
science has d0no for chemistry II hns solve
flr chemists romo n tho chief problems con
ucctrd with putrsiacil0n aud fermentation
problems which were previously IN a state O
lupcipis ohsgurity. Through hActcriolog
chemists have learned that each Kind OF spr
sine fermentation 4. due To "a specific micro
Organism, which placed under definite ululI
tons produces definite chemical substance
and Ia THU manner baotoriDlosiats hayo dl|
covered substances the existence " wllg
, chemists did not even suspect