REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 4

REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES.

RATS AFECTED \tflTH LEPROSY, ■'MELBStTIMfe, May 28. Some years ago a' rat « W*™? suffering from mange, was sent to JJr R J lull, of. Melbourne University Bacteriological ; Department, Dr Bull to*diy announces that tih« i<od<mt was suffering froni- leprosy. ; Th* idea, of the rats spreading leprosy ha* been scoffed at by bacteriologists; but Dr Bull insists that, AusSalian rats are subject to the ; Jje«e, a»d his knowledge of J aC^ rlol^,:^ Bteat.'i The Tat-lep'rosy bacillus is not identical *ith the human bacillus, but there i* a resemblance m microscopic appearance, and m special staining reihe organs aUo produce «, tmiflimum of tUsue-degeneration that the disease m both human and rat life is chronic. - 1 . • Another interesting announcement is to-day made by X>r Bull. He haa receive! the. results, of Edinburgh obse^ vations of tovirie tuberculc. Thew show that of 70 cases of bone and joint tuberculosis m cliildren 26 affected by the human tubercuie baccillus and 41 with the bovhie; b( the children up to'yie ag-e of three yeaTV 28. were bovl^nd five hvirtian,; thfs lai*^^pentdffe- being apparently due to. the feedin? WitH %ws' milk- Seven^v^ne pf r e6tti. of thi' r cases where there ftiberculosis T in £he family showed' the toucan bacillus, and post of these had V>ee'n feel ' "on huniain milk/ „ . ( ,