Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-01-12
Morgan County Thursday January

fermentation, putrefaction, disease
even? What causes milk to sour?
What causes fruits to ferment anT
decay?
Notice his next discovery in 1857.
acid, declaring he had discovered a
rev acid, and germ (bacillus) that
caused it. He had separated (iso.
lated) the bacillus that spoils milk!
Wide excitement followed. But the
milk trade now "pasteurizes'' it's
milk. That date, 1857, fixes the
date of the beginnings of bacteriol-
ogy. Other marvellous discoveries
followed rapidly, in the treatment
of disease.
He had found one of the earliest
(archaic) forms Of life, and minut-
est. Rocks, soil, mountains are as
sociated with them. They put the
nitrogen in the soil, the rust in the
bog iron. They unlock carbon in
dead trees and vegetation, releasing
it for the living plant and animal.
Bacteria causes $3.50 of decay. Some
germs are friendly or harmless 9th
ers are microscopic monsters, crimi-
nals, thieves, thugs, murderers, null
tiplying in the human body SO fast.
that one becomes 100000 in "a
hours
He had caught the burglars Of
life. He corked them up in test
tube, as one would incarcerate a
murderer. His student, Roux says,
"He had found stuff SO plastic, as
could be worked in any fashion to
h ~ hn
cause, and also the remedy, the
cause and remedy for fermentation,
putrefaction and infection He had
found in large measure the way to
vanquish mans greatest physical
foe The human body is like a gar
den. You may change the flora at
will if you find out how to kill the
harmful ones, and keep the gar
den at its best.
He wrote, "There is no greater
charm than to make new discover
les. The pleasure is heightened
when one sees they have some di.
rect application to practical life. "
He saved more lives than were taken
in all the campaigns of Nayoleon
the destroyer.
Application of the Discovery
Pasteur found that the strength
of microbes may be weakened from
day to day, by age. Gust as coffee
isl. He dated his cultures, and
knew just how old, that is how
inoculate with the weakest culture,
the oldest. He increased the
strength at each successive treat
ment. At last the patient could take
the full strength, and was then i'm
mune.
The first application of the germ
treatment Of disease was in chicken
cholera. France lost yearly 1870 of
her fowls. He reduced it to 1Cs
The second application was to anth-
rax, a sheep and cattle disease.
When lodged in the human system
it was called "wool-combers dis.
ease" He discovered that common
earth-worms (fish-worms) are car
riers of this disease. They carry it
from the dead sheep buried in the
soil to the grazing sheep of the field.
He took SO sheep, and made two
lots of 25 each. To 25 he gave the
attenuated virus of anthrax for 13
days, ever increasing the strength
of the treatment. Crowds of farm
ers, scientists, journalists and OPP
ponents We're present. at the con
clusion of the test, May 81, 1881.
On that day he gave the wild virus
to the protected and tht unprotected
sheep alike The half that received
the protective treatment remained
i'll good health. The 25 unprotected
sheep died in the presence of the
WOnder-tricken spectatorst He saved