Science.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1260, 27 January 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

Science.

MALARIAL GERMS. The cause of malarial diseases is said to have been discovered by Prof. Laveran, a French physician of Val-de-Grace. It is a very minute organism, named by him Oscillaria malaria. M. Richard, who announced the discovery in the French Academy of Science, has found those microbes in all the fever patients of the Philippeville hospital in Algeria. These are located in the red blood* corpuscles, and completely destroy their contents. They can easily be rendered visible by treatment with acetic acid, but otherwise it is difficult to detect them in the corpuscles. They look like a necklace of black beads, with one or more projections, which penetrate the cell of the corpuscle, and oscillate or move like whips. TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA. The Medical Press says that Dr.Deuker, who, during twenty-four years of very extensive pracyce in the children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, has treated upward of two thousand cases of diphtheria, and tried all the remedies, both internal and external, employed in this affection, has obtained the best results from the following method, which he has employed for the last ten years. As soon as the white spots appear on the tonsils he gives a laxative mainly composed of senna, which produces an abundant evacuation. When the purgative effect has ceased he gives cold drinks, acidulated with hydrochloric acid, and every two hours a gargle composed of lime water and hot milk in equal parts. Dr. Deuker affirms that when this treatment is commenced early it is generally and rapidly successful.—Scientific American.