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Show OEHM OF CHOLERA INFANTUM. Dlscoterr f Orctiiiinin of Dlneniie Whlcll HweepnAttrty Chllilren. The death of John 1). Hockcfellcr's grandson "Jack," two years ago, has enabled two students, one at Johns Hopkins nnd the other ut tho University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania medical schools to discover what Is believed to bo the organism or germ of disease thut carried car-ried ofT so many little ones every summer sum-mer and whlcll Is commonly culled "summer complaint." When little "Muck" died, two years ago, Mr. Rockefeller Is snld to have offered a fund of 8;00,t)00 to be devoted to research. The outcome of this offer Is the reported discovery of the fatal germ. In fourteen cases the organism found Is nearly identical with that whlcll produces dysentery in adults. |