Show I SERVICE 4 4 DAILY HEALTH I New Discoveries of f Flu Germs j jl I l Must Be Taken With Caution J j S EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE This is the second of two articles on the causes effects and prevention of influenza by Dr Morris Morris' Fishbein By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the tha American f j. leal icel Association n and of Hygeia Hygeia Hy Hy- geia gels the Health Magazine During Influenza the resistance of or the body bod is lowered an and a great variety of germs invade the tissues tissue As a n. result all nU sorts of ot bacteria have havo been found In influenza and the medical profession has hrs become becom exceedingly sU suspicious 1 of new discoveries discoveries dis dis- In this field Until a germ isolated by any In Investigator Investigator In- In has been thoroughly f Test lest Tested st- st ed by independent investigators Under under under un un- der various conditions in different hospitals and anti laboratories It is b not safe fe to accept it as the causative germ of at this extremely difficult main malady d y Of the thc organisms given hen most serious seri seri- rIoUs rI- rI ous Otis con consideration in iii recent t. t years eari the Jr green en producing st streptococcus isolated by Mathers and in 1918 the tho one discovered ere by Ro Rosenow Rose Rose- enow e- e now In 1919 and Innumerable similar simi almi- lar mr ar germs Isolated in various ulous parts of or the world immediately ly thereafter dc deserve special consideration l Pho Tho 10 filter pa parsing organism described d by Meyer Meyel in 1919 and the tho or organisms discovered b by and Gates GateR of ot tho time Rockefeller institute and called by thorn therm bacterium sc sc- sc m to deserve to-deserve as much c consideration con con- n- n RS as is 15 now given to th the Falk germ recently announced as s the cause of at this dl disease ase Time The streptococci aro associated with innumerable dl diseases M of or man Including ing s scarlet fever pneumonia puerperal fever r. r erysipelas rh 1 uma heart disease kidney disease sepsis They rhey are arc among among- the ohe oldest t bacteria and the most varied in form Corm Indeed Victor Idor Vaughan said on one onetime onetime time critically that tho the streptococcI streptococci cocci were probably p on earth before I man himself and th t man was developed de to become a a. host for thIs organism m. m Following all allot of th the th acute acuto infectious diseases of ot childhood child childhood hood streptococci of all aU varieties s and types arc are found in tho the tonsils and anti in th the tho nose and throat Hence scientific phy physicians withhold wIth with with- withhold hold their final Judgment whenever a It new v form of ot streptococcus Is announced announced an an announced until It has been d definitely establIshed that it bears a II causative relationship to a certain disease |