The Wonders Of The Microscope

We iinderstand it is through the og'-ncy of tliis marvel viewing instrument that Dr. Ayer has at length succeeTlod in finding the i-aludal miasm and determining its character. Of its effects we in tliis section have abundant cvi. dencc in the Feteb aso AoüB which i!, alone produces wheD absorbed throuli the Iung8 into tho blood. It has long been held to bo a vapor or sopietbJBg in the vapor of water from decayed and deeaying vegetation. Umler a great magnifying power, the Doctor lias found this vapor to contain distinct organisms or living bodiee, corresponding precisely with those found in tl blood of Ague subjccts. They are 13,000 times less than visible to the naked pye, but havo distinct character and ibrm.-He thinks they are reproductive in decaying matter or in the blood, and henen their lorg continued life or the remote effeets of them in J.he sys.tem. He maintains that thoy resemble in cliaracter the other fermentative poisons. or such as the virus of rabies or of a dead body, lc, all of which are known to reproduce l.hemselves with great rapidity like yeast in moistcned flour, bo that the slightest quantit y impregnates the wholc mass. Yeast through a powerful uiagnifier is geen to bn a foicst of vegetaüon which gTOW, Wossorns, apd goes to iesd in a short time. Miasjo is nol so distitjctly vegetable, but has more the appearanoe of animal Ufe, although its motiona cannot bo ferftctly distingnished. Whnt the Doctor churos to havesttled is that it is an organic íobstance and he has furthcr fonnd and embwiied in bis "Aguc Cure" wbmt wil] destroy