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. NEW MICROBE IS
FOE OF DISEASE
French Doctor Makes Important
Scientific Discovery.
■ WILL BE AID IB EPIDEMICS
Ultramicrobe la Parasite on Bacteria
and Effects Cure of Such Diseases
as Dysentery, Typhoid Fever, Hem
orrhagic Septicemia and Bubonic
Plague— Added to Drinking Water
It Would Play an Important Part
In the Control of Epidemics.
T he discovery of an ultram icrobe,
* which Is a p a ra site on b acteria, and
w hich effects a cure of such diseases
a s dysentery, typhoid fever, hem or
rhagic septicem ia and bubonic plague
has been announced by Dr. F. d ’He-
reLle of the P a s te u r in stitu te of P aris.
» T his pow erful, m inute organism will
be able to play an im portant p a rt in
control of epidem ics, according to
D octor d’Herelle. H e has been able
to m ake men, buffaloes and birds re
sista n t to various diseases by simply
Introducing into them the ultram icrobe
. which had become accustom ed to
preying upon the p a rtic u la r bacterium
th a t causes th e disease.
All th a t would be necessary to stop
p u epidem ic of some disease, typhoid
fo r instance, would be to pour Into the
drinking w a te r supply a very small
am ount of the proper stra in of the
ultram icrobe. D octor d’H erelle de
clares. T his would Infect all of the
people w ith th e h arm less ba<ÿeria-dis-
Aolvlng ultram icrobe which will pro
tect them and prevent an epidemic.
T he ultram icro b e is taste le ss and for
all anim als and m an it is absolutely
harm less, D octor d’H erelle has found
by experience.
• T his w onderful p a ra s itic u ltra m i
crobe has been nam ed the “bacterio
ph ag e” o r b a c te ria -e a ter by D octor
d ’H erelle.
B rought to m ind by th is new dis-
covery Is D ean S w ift’s often-repeated
'q u o tatio n :
So n a tu ra lis ts observe a flea
H a s sm a lle r fleas th a t on him prey^
A nd these have sm aller s till to bite ’em.
And so proceed ad lnflnltum .
p arasitism on a very large num ber ol
species of bacteria. A stra in active
a g ain st one bacteria can be tra in ed
In a te s t tube to become v irulent to
w ard a to tally different one.
The bacteriophage is, of necessity,
I a p a ra site th a t is not able to develop
except by pen etratin g into th e in terio r
of a living bacterium , secreting a bac
terial solvent, and then reproducing
Itself by feeding on the dissolved mi
crobe. It then sends fo rth the young
bacteriophages to prey upon other
bacteria.
The norm al h a b ita t of the b a c te r
iophage is the in testin e and it has
been found in the intestinal tra c ts of
nealthy anim als, both v e rte b ra te and
Invertebrate. But it can be introduced
in the blood as well ‘and act there.
W hether the bacteriophages pro tect
tiie anim al or not depends upon w heth
e r the s tra in p resent is virulent to
th e p a rtic u la r harm ful and invading
bacteria. In th e case of the dysentery
patien t it took six days for the b acter
iophages to become active. In fact,
the history of a case of contagious
disease is th e reflection of the vicis
situdes of th e struggle engaged in w ith
in the anim al or person by the p ath o
genic bacteria and the ultram icroscop-
Ic bacteriophages. But some bacteriu,
such as those th a t live in a healthy
anim al, a re able to acquire an im m un
ity to the bacteriophages, Dr. d’H erelle
has found.
T he bacteriophage is tra n sm itte d in
the sam e way as the harm ful bacteria
and an epidem ic ends because all of
the people have been infected by the
bacteriophages and have become bac
teriophage carriers.
D octor d’H erelle declares th a t his
discoveries a re not an tag o n istic to the
fact th a t th e w hite corpuscles of the
blood provide a defense a g ain st bac
terial disease, but th a t the b a c te r
iophages act in the case of anim als
w ithout n a tu ra l Im m unity or th a t ac
quired by disease or vaccination.
A m onograph of P a ste u r in stitu te
now in the process of prin tin g will
shortly be issued and will give a de
tailed
scientific account
of Dr.
d’HereLle’s researches on the b acter
iophages.
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IS FOUND IN CAMBRIDGE
grade; third, Mark i
grade. For the first t
WORK thorne— first, Ruth A
ly .)
° n d,
E lle n
F ra n c o ;
Hawthorne; third, Orpha Arnold
Junior high.
Sixth grade— first, Ellen Fraley,
Hawthorne; second, Rose Aikens,
Hawthorne; third, Litha Mile«, Haw
thorne.
Seventh grade— first, Lawrence
Powell, Junior high; second Mary
Galey, Junior high; third, Raymond
Cotter, Junior high.
Eighth grade— first, Robert Foltz,
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F o u r th g ra d e — firs t
ric k , J u n io r h ig h ; se<
e f ir s t H u b b a rd , J u n io r h ig h ;
h ig h — M arion, H a w th o rn e ,
g ra d e ; j F if th
g ra d e — firs t,
second H a w th o rn e ; second, E
side of Ashland that contributed,
and received three awards on its
lower grads work. The names could
not be found in order to designate
them in the paper, though they had
premium ribbons pinned en them.
If the United States and Japan
compromise on the island of Yap.
they will have to use a microscope
in making the division.
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Exhaustive Researches.
B efore announcing his work on the
bacteriophage. Doceor d’H erelle lias
m ade exh au stiv e researches into the
n a tu re of this u ltram icro b e which
seem s to hold the possibilities of revo
lutionizing ideas in m edicine and
biology.
D octor d ’H erelle explains th e ac-
’ tion of the bacteriophage as fo llo w s:
T ake th e case of bacillus dysentery.
If a sam ple of the feces of th e patient
Is taken, m ixed w ith bouillon, and
-then passed through a C ham berland
filter, all of th e m icrobes visible un
d e r the m iscroscope will b e ’ retained
in the flue pores of the porcelain filter
and the filtrate or th e liquid th a t
passes through wUl be clear, will re
m ain so indefinitely and is in ap p ear
ance sterile. Suppose th a t a case of
dysentery is followed during Its
course and th a t such u feltrate is pre
pared for each of th e 30 days of the
Illness. If 30 tubes of bouillon cul
tu re s cloudy w ith dysentery bacilli
\gere prepared, and If a drop out of
each of the 30 filtrates prepared each
day w ere added to the corresponding
ly num bered cultures, the following
would be th e result a fte r 12 hours’ in
c u b a tio n : T ubes 1 to 6, no change,
cloudy w ith dysentery c u ltu re ; tubes
7 to 18, perfectly c le a r; tubes 19 to
30. cloudy like the first six. A strange
phenom enon h as occurred in tubes 7
•o 18 caused by th e adding of the drop
of filtrate. T he bacilli have been dis
solved. And a t the sam e tim e th a t
Radcliffe graduute, m ountain clim ber
this dissolving began to tuke place the
and
all-round ath lete, Miss B arb ara
p atien t began to get well, and on the
Bonnelle,
in a series of strenuous
eighteenth day the cure was complete.
physical
and
medical te sts a t th e Cam
T h e presence of the dissolving p rinci
ple und the cure coincide. T his has bridge, Mass., Y. M. C. A. gym nasium ,
been found to be the case in other passed as the “perfect g irl” of 1921.
diseases, e v e n ,th o se th a t a re not in She pu ts tennis and sw im m ing as her
fav o rite sports. She a ttrib u te s her
te stin a l in ch aracter.
good
health and splendid physique to
And th is principle th a t ap p ears in
sim
ple
diet, plenty o f fresh a ir and a
th e filtrate is thousands of tim es more
m
oderate
am ount of outdoor and in
(tow erful than the most energetic a n ti
door
exercise.
septic known. A billionth p a rt of a
cubic cen tim eter of filtrate will dis
solve a tubeful of dysentery bacilli. FATHER
OF HUGE FAMILY
And unlike a chem ical, the b a c te ri
ophages will m ultiply them selves over Married Three Times and Two of Hi«
an d over again. A m ere trace of the
Wives Are Dead.
liquid in th e tube of dissolved bacilli
M am « C. B runer, seventy-six, is
will clear up a n o th e r tube of culture, “daddy” to 33 children.
and if the process is continued a tra c e
B runer is one-quarter Creek Indian
from the 999th tube will effectively and th ree-q u arters negro and m akes
• ause the solution of the 1.000th cul- his home in Independence, Mo. He is
i are.
reputed to have the second largest
But in the dissolved cu ltu re of fam ily of any m an in the Creek In
bacilli th ere can be seen no microbes, dian nation,
even if the most pow erful optical
B runer says th a t he has been m ar
m eans a re employed.
In fact, the ried th ree tim es; his first tw o wives
bacteriophages a re so extrem ely small a re dead.
tliat Dr. d ’H erelle declares th a t w ith
T he children range from youngsters
out a doubt no hum an eye will ever of thirteen to m iddle-aged men and
. ‘^ u b le to see them and determ ine women. T w enty of them a re girls and
•.heir form even w ith th e aid of any th irteen boys. Tw elve of the sons are
In stru m e n t th a t may be devised in the overseas veterans of the W orld w ar.
5 uture. T he volume-of a bacteriophage
T he high cost of living did not
i • practically equal to th a t of a mole- worry B runer as f a r as providing for
< lie of album en. It is only by d ilut his fam ily was concerned. H e form er
in g a c u ltu re of bacteriophages many, ly lived w ith the Creek nation in O kla
> .any tim es, then adding a very small homa. T he governm ent allotm ent of
i..n o u n t to a cu ltu re of bacilli and $14 a m onth for each man, woman and
«•■unting the spots w here dissolving child m ade the provision problem
ta k e s place, th a t the num ber o f the sim ple for the veteran Indian.
t ..«jteriophage in a given volume could
B runer served in the Union arm y
t c determ ined and th a t its role in in th e Civil war.
t ..tu re could be discovered. By this
*• etliud it w as found th at th ere are
Huge Chicle Crop for Yank«.
.Hf ^least 2.500,000,000 bacteriophages
T he chicle crop of the s ta te of
1>< r cubic centim eter.
Cam peche, Mexico, this year w as up
T rained to F ig h t
w ard of 5,000,000 pounds, m ost of
'Pliere is only one species of bac- which went to the U nited S ta te s and
t e . lgphages able to acclim ate itself to was m anufactured in to chewing gum.
second, Kenneth Hobson; third, Jack
O’Connell.
High school boys—first, Victor
Pieffer, on a chair; second, Elton
Ramsay, on drawings; third, Marlon
Costly, on a table.
High school girls— first, Emily
Wentner, apron; second, Katherine
Pittinger, apron; third, Francis
Green, apron.
Neil Creek was the only one out
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