Show new V U aes for X kiy bacteriologists have been incited to renewed activity of 0 experimentation and research by the announcement that ahn t t the h e play of phosphorescent light will a actually kill the bacilli of tuberculosis and the tha value of the roentgen ray for bof the same purposes s will probably y soon be determined pending further results in both these directions and char trin rin have been investigating the action of high frequency currents on bacterial tox tomines ines former investigators have con fined themselves to continuous currents in which the results obtained are vitiated by the che chemical mical action due to electrolysis and ahn charrin arin on the other hand band have used high fre quency alternating currents the toxin being contained in U tubes plunged in iced water in order to prevent beating the effect of the elect electrical action greatly diminished the of the tox alnes of diphtheria and emia emin when tried on th the e guinea pigs furthermore the thus rendered rende red harmless sensibly augmented the life resistance of the animals to infection of a similar kind becoming in fact preventive vaccines if this proves to be the case with the tomines of other bacteria it will provide a much better method of attenuation than that now ilium in use for though in a few cases this can be done by age or d drying it ls Is usually alli necessary to p pass ass the virus through the system of some unfortunate animal A purely physical process would not only be more humane but would give a certain certa in and I 1 men measurable curable result heinit instead of oile one always liable to 1 be affected by unknown factors in the constitution of the animal operated upon the influence of the action of high frequency alternating currents on the bacterial f r acts in the human body Is one of the subjects for new liget on which elect and adent scientists lats generally are waiting with intense inter est esl |