INVISIBLE GERMS.
Professor Calmette, a distinguished director of lite Pasteur Institute, lias just communicated to the, French Academy of Medicine an important paper, in which lie slates that an invisible germ, first discovered 20 years ago by Dr. Pontes, of Rio de Janeiro, is really a baby tubercle bacillus. In its invisible, immature condition, it does not cause tuberculosis, merely some skin disease and sonic kinds of blood poisoning; but when it is fully grown it becomes an ordinary tubercle bacillus and is capable of producing consumption and oilier tubercular diseases. So small is the germ that it passes through a porcelain niter and also through the walls <f blood-vessels.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)
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110INVISIBLE GERMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 5 (Supplement)
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