18 THE MICROSCOPE. ‘ 
EDITORIAL EXCERPTS. 
BY C. H. STOWELL. 
DR. GREGG VS. THE GERM THEORY, 
Dr. Boynton, in the New England Journal of Dentistry, 
has some very sharp things to say on the above _ subject. 
After he has read the report of the committee given in 
this number he will have plenty of proof that he was in the 
Tight. It is only to be regretted that any person was obliged to 
waste their time in replying to such a scientific fraud and humbug. 
It has been a long time since such a stir has been made about “ great 
discoveries” which resulted in so complete a disaster to the inventor. 
Dr. Gregg says he has ‘done the job,” and in the opinion of every 
true scientist he has succeeded so far as he is personally concerned. 
He is buried so deep beneath the rubbish of his own “charcoal 
organisms” that Dr. Boynton and all the rest of us together will 
never be able to find where he was “mortally wounded.” 
As the editor of the Sczentific and Literary Gossip says: “when 
will the time come when the medical profession will have a scientific 
education?” 
GERMS OF CHOLERA, $ 
Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, of London, says that Professor Tyndall 
is wrong in stating that a// cholera germs are bred in the human 
intestines, and from them by means of excrement are diffused, Dr. 
Carpenter gives three cases where cholera was caused by offensive 
piggeries, by a retarded drain in marshy ground, and by a compost 
heap of unnamable filth in an unused yard. The outbreak of fatal 
disease in each of these cases was directly traced to these sources, 
the effluvium being borne onthe wind. In each the disease was 
successfully combated and finally conquered by the removal of the 
filthy cause. 
THE BACILLUS TUBERCULOSIS AS AN ENTOZOON. 
In the British Medical Journal is an article on the above subject. 
It describes a disease of the lamb that causes very serious losses to 
sheep-farmers, as due to the presence in the bronchi of numerous 
individuals of a species of nematode worm, the Strongylus filaria. 
The habitat of this parasite makes it possible to bring parasiticides 
into contact with it. This means of arresting the disease in fact has 
