| Show A NEW MICROBE if the new york world la Is to be relied upon a brooklyn physician has baa now discovered what he calls the death germ the mortis mortia bacillus to whose action upon the human system it la Js claimed death of old age pally Is in due the name 0 of the dincov berer la 18 dr Q fish clark and he la is said bald to be engaged at present to in study log the habit bablis of the he microbe wito with view to finding some rome means whereby to destroy it or to neutralize neutralist lie its power of destruction he believes he to ie on the point of discovering the secret of the remarkable longevity which according to nil all accounts was the rule in remote generation in an article on bs alleged dir discovery covery or dr dark clark states that there are myrinda myriads of living beings within the human body subsisting on degenerate tissues tle eues abon through immorality or ignorance of natures lawf the tissues are depleted the ever present their way to hose tamnes and commence the work of destruction st this la in disease oxygen to la the great lifesaver life saver in cassoff of sickness nature generally attempts to mend herself by increasing the speed peed of the stream that carries the life giver to the tissues of the body the tempera temperature Aare to IB heightened on account of tue the rapidity of the chemical otie mical changes and lover fever la is produced the red corpuscles corpus cles of the blood are the oxy gen en laden globules glo bules every time we breathe millions of them help to renew life stop breathing for a moment only and the tissues begin to die here then 19 1 the dogger says is ia the vulnerable part in lift lafeat at the focus ot of all tissue metamorphoses this Is IB the point at al which we find the mortis bacillus the discovery of this deato death microbe to is best given in the be file own words in july 1898 while examining the blood under a powerful microscope I 1 observed two or three red oo 00 dpn soles unite and form a white corpuscle over the field of the glass with an amoe amoeboid bold movement I 1 saw fur for the first time a bright red dish cell move away it was smaller than a single red corpuscle and with the added characteristic of of independent motion the oxygen and other vital ingredients of thi the red corpuscles corpus cles were gone the corpuscles corpus cles united and formed themselves into a white corpuscle the tissue lost the precious oxygen upon which it feeds the mortis bacillus purloined the morsel in a negative way such a change would lessen the carrying powers of the red corpuscles corpus cles in their function of xe is lieving the system of the deadly carbonic acid gas coi cm berning the chancier and babits of the little animal he sal sa the mortis bacilli may occur in groups or singly they are minute globules glo bules they change theila shape sometimes they appear like minute spiders extending themselves in every direction sometimes they shrink up and are almost round at other times hey flatten themselves and then again they look like canary seeds needs they multiply rapidly rapidly under the proper circumstances by y dividing themselves yeal they are about 1 of an aft inch in diameter though they vary in size they move by means of protruding a part of their body forward and drawing the other part to it they are of a fawn to a reddish color they are numerous in proportion to the con diLlon of the individual in a case of typhoid fever from which I 1 drew a few drops of blood discovered that the red corpuscles corpus cles did not exceed the white and that the mortis bacilli were everywhere present in ia a healthy child of healthy parents parent rf I 1 aeo searched robed in vain to and qwin la conclusion hette that squalor equa lor fiat ignorance or immorality produce conditions which make it possible poe eible for the or unary disease germ to exist and the existence of such germs germ originates a condition condi tiou favorable to the existence 0 of f the death germ the latter foods feeds upon the oxygen of the blood at a time when the depleted tissues stand in need of instant relief the red cor cof muscles are diminished and the deadly work is soon camf completed comil eted should further investigation the claims made by the brooklyn physician it would be so no exaggeration to say ay that his bis discovery to la the greatest of this age that the primary cause of death is in the violation of we be laws of the creator has been made known through revelation and corroborated by scientific investigation but the means whereby it is effected has remained a deep mystery Is wat that now about to be revealed |
