Show M FI FLU GER GERM ISOLATED R Hopes of thousands of sufferers suf suf- from epidemic influenza for foT a Q cure or prevention of the disease were raised by the tho announcement an an announcement pf pr Ithe discovery of the cause and ond the isolation of the germ It Is made by Dr Simon W W. Flexner director of the Institute of Medical Medical Medical Med Med- ical Research who attributes the the discovery to to Dr Peter K and Dr Frederick T T. T Gates also of the Institute The The Isolation will permit experimentation experimentation tation with antidotes and anti antI- toxins So small is the gem germ that it must be ba magnified a tho thousand nd times before It is seen distinctly under the microscope It lodges in the nose and throat during the first thirty six ours of influenza Influenza enza infection then attacks the lungs in such a 3 way as to make them sus susceptible to other germs in th nose and throat notably those of pneumonia and bron- bron elLis clUs |