THE CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION.
Professor Tvxdall has made public the result of experiments by Doctor Koch of Berlin on tubercular disease. It was known before that the disease was communicable, but Koch has ascertained the exact nature of the parasite which causes consumption. He has propagated it artificially and killed animals with parasites thus produced. The matter expectorated from the lungs of consumptive persons has been found to be swarming with parasites which are highly infective. Tyndall’s object is to protest afresh against legislation which prohibits in England experiments such as enabled Koch to make these discoveries, but it is hoped that Koch will develop a harmless form of the tubular parasite which by inoculation may prevent comsumption and thus check a scourge which according to Koch’s calculation, carries off one-seventh of the human race.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1103, 22 July 1882, Page 4
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135THE CAUSE OF CONSUMPTION. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1103, 22 July 1882, Page 4
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