Show DISEASES AND THEIR ORIGIN the strides made in medical and science of late years are in and of themselves simply wonderful we are rapidly coming to a knowledge of what it is ie that causes disease in all its forms forma this special development of animal analysis being known as bacteriology so 80 great in a scientific sense have been the achievements of men skilled in the practice and theory of the materia medica that th y might properly be classed as wonderful but for two awkward and at the same time stubborn facts contagions contagious conta gions are as nume numerous roun widespread and deadly as of yore and the number of people who die this side the three score andeen and ten limit is as great as it ever was we have it on the authority of the eminent prof 0 loew of munich bavaria that nine tenths of all diseases of men and anin animals nals are known to bed be due ue to a species of bacteria which enter the system through the mouth or nostrils multiply in the blood and produce poisonous secretion oae of two conditions must inevitably follow the patient or the parasite must die the continued life of one being the destruction of theother the tho other the reaction which must take place in the body bady against the germs is described as a most wonderful process and to is made more interesting by the fact that one who has passed through certain infections infectious diseases is in rendered ren Jered proof for a time against a second attack it is callej called artificial i ammu alty though trough by any other name it would be just as aa effective this is iq used in contradistinction notion to natural immunity as exhibited in the cases of dogs anti and some of the rodents which never have tuberculosis or the swine plague and the re anoe to typhoid fever and asiatic cholera which all the lower ani malo male enjoy The discovery was made in 1886 so we are advised that the blood of an animal which had acquired immunity would destroy bacteria and be a curative or preventive of the disease in any other animal both the conditions of immunity described are as is clai claimed mett traced to matter in the blood bubp but unlike the venom of the rattlesnake this ibis does doea not affect the higher animals the blood of a rabbit after it had bad recovered from the swine plague has yielded the desired substance in the form of a dry powder ana ADI possesses all the curative properties ot of the blood against swine plague this to is cited ai a fact of immense importance and let us hope that it is As given out it to la a little too abstruse in its derivation and somewhat too mysterious in its application to be of practical benefit t to common folk even it if the doctors themselves are able to make any thing more of it than a previously occult fact whose discovery is a delightful theory not susceptible of actual application that cholera yellow fever and diphtheria for instance are simply the manifestations of poisoned blood produced by bacteria or bacilli to is not disputed but of what avail is such knowledge to the common people unless the lukais of effectually destroying such fungi shall be pointed out in language which they can understand tanu tapu |