DR. GALIPPE'S MICROBES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 224, 21 September 1893, Page 5

DR. GALIPPE'S MICROBES.

O.ne of the Most Cdeioos of all Modern Medical Discoveries.

Among all the painful diseases to which human flesh is heir the most agonising are, without doubt, those which arise from the formation of gravel and etone, the origin and proper treatment; of which have been heretofore a matter of mere conjecture. During a recent sitting of the Academy of Sciences a most interesting report was sent in by Dr. (jalippe, which throws considerable light on the subject. This eavanb has devoted over eight years to continuous investigations, the results of which may be briefly summarised as follows:—

All stonos found in the human body contain rnicrobea of a peculiar kind. These microbes aro the authors of that chemical decomposition which results in a calcerous deposit. Our organs, even when in a perfectly healthy condition, freo.uently conihi largo numbers of such parasites, which,

~ j'.vever, produce no deleterious effects so iunj; as the humors of the body are io a normal state ; bub onco we ace attacked by disease, the microbian manifestations, as he calls them, set to work to produce the deposit which develops into gravel and etone.

The most curious portion of Dr. Galippe's report is his report of how he proved his theory by exporimont, und having set microbes the task of producing little stones had tho grim satisfaction to see it successfully accomplished. For this purpose he employed human saliva, from which, after an experiment lasting over five years, he obtained hundreds of little stones. These artificial productions aro in all respects absolutely identical with the stones found in various organs of the human body.

Tho microbes which produce them can be isolated and cultivated, Tuberculous diseases can be successfully treated by inducing a process by which the tubercles become hard and gravelly. The opinion expressed at the sitting of tho Academy was that Dr. Galippe's investigations and discoveries had thrown a powerful light upon the origin, prevention and cure of the most agonising diseases known to modern medicine.—(Paris letter to ' London Telegraph.')