DIPHTHERIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4546, 23 May 1889, Page 3

DIPHTHERIA.

51. Pasteur ( says'the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph) has been asked his opinion relative to discoveries made by Drs Boux and Yorsin, who have isolated the bacillus of diphtheria or croup, and communicated diphtheritic affeetionß to animals, with a view to obtaining a prophylutic for the cure of the fell disease which makes so many ravages m France, and especially m Paris. M. Pasteur believes that the remedy will taka a longer time to Cnd out than did the discovery of the possibility of isolating the bacillus or microbe, which was comparatively easy. Ho thinks, however, that the two young doctors referred to have dono enough to show that it will bo possible to iind a vaccine for the disease at no very remote period. The physiologist also mentions tho experiment made by fir Jules Simon, of the 1 Sick Children's Hospital, who found that the members of a family which left town for six months m the year were frequently laid up with diphtheria becauao they had the microbe of the disease m their rooms. After they changed their abode, according to the doctor's 1 advice, they wore never troubled by diphtheritic affections. Dr Simon, therefore, believes that MM. Boux and Yersin will be able eventually to find a means of making people proof against the disease even when dwelling m places haunted by that " ualy customer," the bacillus of diphtheria.