The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-05-10
FIND SERUM TO
KILL FLU GERMS
Paris Physician Meets With Sue
cess in Anti-Plague Ex-
perimentS.
100000 IN WORLD HIT
New York Hospital Isoates Sleeping
Sickness Germ--Parls Doctor Says
influenza and Sleeping Sickness
Are Twin Diseases.

New York.--Three-quarters OF the
worlds population have been affected
with Spanish influenza, which is now
declared to be the same disease as the
sleeping sickness, and a serum has
been found TO cure both. according 10
reports, Experiments are being car
ried on here and in Paris.
simultaneously with the receipt OF
word from Paris that serum had
been made by DR.. Charles Foley which
would cure both influenza and sleeping
sickness, came a report from Belle
vue hospital that preliminary report
had been issued from Mount Sinai
hospital of the probable isolation of
the sleeping sickness germ.
To produce a serum to cure the on.
cephalitls letharglca, as the sleeping
sickness is known to science, II would
be necessary to segregate the germ OF
the disease. as serums are made from
the disease germs themselves, the live
germs in the blood being killed by the
Injection into the blood of the dead
bodies Of the same germs.
The germ Of Spanish influenza il
said to have been isolated but no per.
feet serum is known to have been pro
duced.
Use Flu Germs.
Doctor Foley In Paris produced the
serum for the cure OF sleeping sick
ness without isolatlng the encephall.
tis lethargica germ at all. but by using
| germs of influenza, which led him to
assert that'the two are twin diseases
and caused by the same germ under
/ different conditions.
| The same serum with which he cured
many cases of influenza was found
equally effective In curing sleeping
sickness This theory of twin diseases
Is borne out in the famous Mrs. Mntz
case here. where the sleeping sickness
followed severe attack of Spanish In.
iiuenza.
Az the office of Doctor SINNERS al
Bellevue II was said that Mount Slnal
hOsptai researchers were not ready
to state positively they had segregated
the sleeping sickness germ and that no
formal announcement of the germs
discovery had been issued. A prelml.
nary report had stated the doctors at
Mount Sinai had succeededin fading
a "globo!d body" Of lnnnltesimaf pro.
portions which was believed to be the
possible germ or cause OF the disease
To Publish Report.
Experiments with the globoid body
ore now being carried on at Mount
Sinai, complete report OF the find
ings OF the researchers there will be
issued In due time, 1t was said.
Doctor Foley, in Paris said there nre
25,O00O00 cases OF the "0u" annually
aud 30,000000 this year because Of the
worldwide epidemic.
81 did not Invent this anti.plagne
serum, and II was only after had
made successful experiments on my.
self that used II on others. Since
that time ! and other physicians have
made thousands OF cures, and ! am
convinced that the Spanish influenza
and the sleeping sickness are the same
disease.
while there is no danger In employ.
Ing this treatment, there is grave dan
ger from influenza due TO the great
number of cases, which are constantly
Increasing every day. Nearly three
quarters of the population Of the worl(
has already been more or less affected
with IT,"