REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES.
Professor Pasteur, of Pans, has made some remarable discoveries in the vaccination line. lie has traced several fatal and virulent diseases to micro-; scopic life, and he has found that chicken cholera by innoculatiou and attenuation • may be successfully resisted. More recently he has investigated the virus' of the splenic fever of cattle, more widely., known as anthrax and Siberian plague ; and at the late medical •congress in . London, he gave an account of a , series of discoveries in this new field, which not, only add immensely to the scientific assurance of the efficiency of vaccination among men, but put into the hands , of w cattle owners the means of arresting a disease as destructive to the domestic animals as smallpox ever was •to humanity. He also demonstrates a general method of preparing virus vaccine, based on the attenuating action of oxygen and the air, which makes it probable that a virus can be prepared which, “while it thoroughly protects against smallpox, will bo less open to . objection than humanised or bovine r; virus, since the possibility of conveying at the same time any syphilitic or sceptic taint; will be entirely obviated.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 9418, 13 June 1882, Page 1
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194REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES. Temuka Leader, Issue 9418, 13 June 1882, Page 1
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