The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-10-22

even at this advanced period Of s,icu.
tifc investigation 1t Is not DEFINITELY
known. The claim d, that % , .susct
'b, q germ 8, NOT accepted 10y SOD. n1>''N'
germs. which according 90 THEM form,
are know a- cocci. bacteria, nsrl,ll, "a
Iluou, and syirilla. are Among 'hc small
est unit, ot lite, 80. 100000 ct them. 90,
cordiug to Prof. Max von na.tcukotcr,
of Munich, weighing only one m'lligt1m.
In 1854 Dr. koch claimed that the com
ma shaped bacillu, was the tuc cause
OF the disease. and hi> theory seems 20
have met with considerable favor,
Though 1t is not vet admitted - N'Icnti
fc truth. In fact pr. Koch himself, I
an address delivered before The Imperial
German Board OF Health at Berlin, Aug
ust 30, 1854, admits that the true cause
OF cholera is not precisely known, though
he invariably found it to exist. Dr.
II. Nandvkc Carter Of Londan SAYS thar
the real cholera germ. j. such a thing
truly exists, has vet 10 BE- found. He.
too. says he found an organism rcscmb.
ling a vibro rather than q bacillus, and
claims that IL would be irrational 90 sup
pose that an everywhere widely listritut
sd organism like Nibriofrugula can alou"
be the essential cause of Asiatic cholera.
His Investigations we've all in India. and
he did not see an authentic specimen
of the organism. Others assert that II
is Il specific disease originating in India,
and the assertion is also made that chol.
era can arise spontaneously in other
countries and is not dependent on a spe.
ciic cause
DR. Koch says the comma bacilli grow
extremely rapid and reach a minimum in
two days; after that they ~
die, and other baccilli form in their
place. Temperature has very little :,
do with their lives however. They ar,
said to live at a temperature from Il
TO l04 degrees Fahrenheit. These ba
lcilli are located solely in the irtestines
rs, according to DIR. Koch, none Of then
have been found TO exist in the bloc,
or in any of the other organs. In ia,
, lower section of the lower intestine
: they are found in great abundance. ais,
in the d~eiecta, but not often in tn,
! vomit. II is said that the bacill. can
not live in the stomach, and the reason
' that most deaths occur on Monday an,
! Tuesday is because those davs sue
, ceed the one in which over.eating an,
cver'drinking is usually INDUCED in
and the bacilli is conveyed into the in
t%estines bv the undig ssted mass of foo,
that passes into them.
The question then arises, how is i
that this bacterial vegetation ~ the Ia
itestines can kill a mani Bacteria no
.only consume substance. hut also pre-
duee others Of various kinds. many O
which are of a very peculiar natur,
Some are Of transient nature and emi
an intense smell; Others produce roI
cring matter, or some poisonous sui
stance. In the qualification of albu
minous liquids blood poisons are forue
which must be- products If vital change
Of the bacteria, as putrifcatiom is OIL
"A consequence OF the bacterial vegeta
iion.
II is asserted that these comma la
cilli destroy tho blood c~orpuscles with
in a pretty wide range, and it is fair I
conclude that they destroy more or leS
of the surrounding tissues. Mr.. Rict
ards, a physician at Goalando, in Indis
says hat sometimes one can feed IN
iciecta to animals and do no harm; O
other times the delecta prove fatal an
the animal dies in cramps. The tim
required for such animals to die aftc
eating the deiecta is from Is minutes I
two and one hall hours.
This reasoning does not 90 TO shoy
that these animals die from a specie
of bacteria, but from a poisoning o
ome peculiar nature generated from tn
cholera dejecta, and why this actor
does not occur in all eases is more tina