| Show PROGRESS OF bacteriology in the december number of maturen Na turen oa a medical publication of copenhagen denmark J carlsen carleen M D gives an interesting and a comprehensive hov asive account of how modern bacteriology teri has been turned to account in greece in the killing billing of those pests pest of f every land field mice about a year ago he says BUYS professor eor loeffler Jj a prominent eminent follower tOllOw ef of professor Baor koch diw discovered a bacillus which produces a dead deadly iv typhus fever in buth both house and field mice mixed with mice food it develops a deadly disease in eight to 10 Jour fourteen teen days while having the addan being at all dangerous to ft ataee 0 of not ether ter domestic animals in the article spoken of dr carlsen describes deac ribes at length the physical and opo Go conditi condi tims ns of thessaly vroom greece and we learn that from time lime immemorial mice have been the orse cone of the land devouring the best part dart of every year years s crop we do not vender for we are told that a female mouse from the month of march ull till long jinto the summer bears every month six to twelve and sometimes ane young ones lait summer the muse plague was waa more dreadful adful than ever before on accorn of thle the drought the large landowners appointed some of their class af aha a committee to devise devies means for relief the committee called upon pasteur who sent them to L effler loeffler bad fad not as aa yet dreamed of so large a where sphere for the trial of his discovery he eeD ted the invitation to come to thessaly Thea saly maly and for a consideration try all discovery after he be had made sure that at mouse species on which he had ted was the same as that which which plagued the Thessa lians in ate laboratory the contagion was transmitted from one oae animal to another by pollution donation of their NO cooj and by the eving living mice eating the dead bodies of those whom disease had killed A ffoyd many difficulties attended on the doctors operations operation sp however one of which was the preparation on a large of the food at home he had used need a decoction of barley straw to which hiah he be added I 1 per cent peptone and pet per cent grape sugar in such a told fluid milliards milli willi ards of bacilli would develop in ft toe the course of a night but in all or greece there was to be found only one team apparatus large for the production of the ster fluid and that apparatus was in the JUniver university sity hospital after the difficulty of bir bursting sting glass bottles and condensers had been met by the use of un tin and many other difficulties had bain overcome a beginning was ude emde in the neighborhood of laying larla pa cas of wheat bread of boot abent an inch in thickness tha thoroughly saturated with the bacilli fluid a an placed in each mouse hole in bap expect atto that the mice would jle at it IL the government furnished an army amy of soldiers as workers to teach the peasants bow the broad bread was waa to be saturated atu rated and to show them by eating aerated te rated broad bread that the bacillus was bet dangerous to man As soon as the saw the effects upon the mice they ilmi entered upon their work with fat industry the rumor of success pread everywhere and the demands lor fit the fluid were so numerous that no supply was sufficient the mice were killed and the air was wa soon full of birds which feed on mice examinations of dead mice showed that their liver and melt were overloaded with bacilli honors were showered upon prof loeffler the paper quoted from makes reference to a fight to be inaugurated against a rodent which does so much harm to danish forests of which we will have full accounts later the field of bacteriology is widening wi denini rapidly and when its developments are practically and usefully applied am ail in we the instances cited its real benefits become more app appreciable we are as much interested in utah as elsewhere although but little if anything in III a general way has been accomplished yet |
