Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-07-02
LIGHT PRODUCES !.
A NEW M|CROBE
Experiments of Woman May
Revolutionize the Treat
ment of Diseases
MENINGITIS CURE REPORTED
Doctor lnJects Serum Taken From
Persons Who Had Had In.
fantile Paralysis.

Ianthe FdTaiysIs.
Paris-A hitherto unknown disease,
contracted during scientific expert
ments, caused the death of we'll
known French Savant, DR.. Alfred Con-
or, one of the directors of the Pasteur
Institute at Tunis. During experiment
tai inoculation of guinea pig DIR. Con-
or accidentally dropped scalpel,
which, in falling, caused a small
scratch on his thigh
DR.. Conor at first paid little atten-
tion to the scratch, but soon it became
evident that through it he had con-
gaining on his system.
All efforts of DR.. Conor himself and
other specialists were useless. No
medicine could be discovered to react
against the progress Of the disease.
Even surgical Intervention failed to
help the patient, and after several
months of suffering DR.. Conor died in
terrible agony On his deathbed DR..
Conor, by special decree, was decora-
ted with the Cross of the Legion of
Honor for having been dangerously
wounded during the accomplishment
of professional duty.
A discovery which may throw some
light on the origin of DR.. Conor's dis
ease has just been announced before
the Academy of Sciences by French
woman scientist, Nine. Victor Henri,
whose research work, however, was
undertaken without reference to DR..
Conor's illness. Nine Henri succeeded
in producing an entirely new and
hitherto unknown germ by taking an
ordinary carbupcle microbe and sub
jecting it to ultraviolet rays. The new
microbe, says Nine. Henri, is entirely
different from that of the carbuncle,
and when a number of guinea pigs
have been inoculated with the new
germs the illness contracted was of
slow evolution and in every respect
dissimilar to that of carbuncle. Nine.
Henri says her discovery raises the
question whether microbes do not
evolve and change in course of time
and whether the multitudinous mi
crobes now known to science do not
all come from few primitive races
have transformed themselves into the
different microbes of the various
diseases which they now cause.
A well-known bacteriologist gives
the opinion that if by the action of
ultraviolet rays Nine. Henri succeed
ed in transforming virulent microbe
into less virulent or harmless one
her discovery may cause a revolution
in the treatment of disease.
Another important medical discov-
cry has been announced by the French
savant, Prof. Meter. who, before the
Academy of Medicine, declared that
he had been able to cure affections Of
the spinal marrow, which hitherto had
resisted all kinds of treatment, by in
jections into the spine Of serum taken
from patients who in their youth had
suffered from infantile paralysis.
DR.. Meter formulated and declared
the theory several years ago that
serum taken from people, formerly i'll
with spinal diseases would neutralize
virus of spinal Inflammation, but he
was unable to experiment on human
being until the case was brought to
him recently of man who, after seem
ingly having recovered from an af.
lection of the spine, had sudden re-
lapse and showed symptoms of men
ingitis-stiffness of the neck and body
and rapidly increasing paralysis Of the
lower members.
After the patients case had been de-
SPARED of Dr. Meter injected on sue
ceeding days altogether sixty-six GU
bic centimeters of serum taken from
different persons who had suffered
previously from paralysis between the
ages of 4 months and 2 years and sue
ceeded in entirely curing his patient
The man is now in the best of health
drives an automobile, plays tennis and
is about to return to Paris to resume
his occupation.