The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
MICROSCOPE IS
SECOND SIGHT
Remarkable Uses Of the In
Strument That Makes Atoms
Tangible in Form.
WONDERFUL NEW GLASS
MOST MINUTE OBJECTS PLAIN
LY SEEN.

New York, June 10-At this season,
when every amateur naturalist in the
country is providing himself with micro
scopic apparatus for the summers outing
among beetles, bUrrs and bacteria, the
manufacturers of microscopes are COM
planning that they cannot keep pace with
Jne demand One firm alone in New York
tlJy makes and dispOses of 1890 of these
indispensable instruments in a year The
call for high power instruments, further
more IS already producing results which
could not have been anticipated year
ago
The latest development OF the magnify
Ing glass, one not yet carried to compile
Ton, promises the revelation of unseen
things buried seTenty-five times deeper
from our eyes than the strata Of minute
ness u which the ordinary microscope
penetrateS- This ultra-microscOpe. as it
is called, presents as vet only a very I'M
satisfactory image. Particles that were
Invisible before flash Up under the i'm
plngement Of the strong ray of light that
is used. but their nature is quite indis-
ungUishable- They appear only as blurs
Yet the knowledge that further vision ex-
zsts is squirting the inventor to pursue
and establish it.
Hydrophobia Germ.
Meantime. it is in the field Of medicine
that the microscope as We now have il is
cong the greatest and most Sensa tiOnaI
things Thus. its latest find. the germ of
hydrOphobla. mas created all at once Il
eliel4is5t III lllt LleAilOu OF treatment IndT
disease. The patient who has been bit
ten by a presumably mad dos is hence
forth freed from the long period of sus-
penSe that waited on the results of the
former method of inOcUlatiIE a rabbit
with the virus of the dog. Now that the
germ IS known. its presence or absence
may be detected at once by microscopic
examination Of the brain substance of
tHe alleged mad dog. and the sufferer
either Immediately relieved of his fears
or warned that he must undergo the Past
eur treatment.
The microscope is in fact. the uD-tO-
Gate physicians most useful tool. With
out It the germ theory Of the origin of
diseases could not have been discovered.
cine would be hOpelessly hampeTed In
such laboratory as that of the Post
Graduate Medical school and hospital of
TINS city not only IS II used for diagnoses
of cases in the wards and for the bac-
theological training Of hundreds Of ply
stefan students from all parts of the Unit
ed States and foreign lands but il exam
the world and from the private practices
OF the two hundred or more New York
physicians and surgeons who comprise
the institutions teaching faculty. Here the
microscopes are in full force on the glass
table tops, one for each worker. and CIus-
supports together with bottles of cOlorpd
liquids, and all manner of stufs christened
IN Greek and Latin. Here. in cases. are
myriads of microscopic ''ssides''-smaH
OhlOng bits of glass smeared with bacterial
specimens Of the thousand known Varie-
TIES and IN a large copper incubator are
the deadly cultures in which the hacter-
lrbanite in his successful backyard gar