Salt Lake Times | 1891-01-28 | Page 1 | Wonders Seen by Sir Joseph Lister

Wonders Seen t7 Sir Joseph I.lster. New York Herald. A recent number of the London Lancet Lan-cet contained a letter from Sir Joseph Lister, in which occurs the following interesting in-teresting paragraph: "There is another line of inquiry from which I caunot help hoping for good results. re-sults. Through Dr. Koch's great kindness kind-ness I had the opportunity of penetrating pene-trating into tho arena of tho hygienic institute of Berlin, where I saw most beautiful researches carried on in that institution, of which Dr. Koch is the inspiring in-spiring cenius. 1 saw in the cases of two ol the most virulent infectious diseases dis-eases to which man is liable tho course' or -mo oiiierwise oeauiy disease cm short in the animals on which the experiments ex-periments wero performed by the injection in-jection of a small quantity of a material perfectly constant in character, an inorganic in-organic substance as easily obtained as any article in the materia medicn. Not only this, but by means of tho same substance these animals were rendered incapable of taking tho disease." This undoubtedly refers to the report that Xooh had discovered a certain euro for scarlet fever and diphtheria, those dreadful scourges of childhood and youth.