Show good bye flu hopes of thousands of sufferers from epidemic influenza for a cure or prevention of the disease were raised lately by the announcement of the discovery ot of the cause and the isolation of the germ it is made by dr simon W flexner director of the rockefeller institute of medical research who attributes the discovery to dr peter K and dr frederick T gates also of the institute the isolation will permit experimentation with antidotes and antitoxins so small is the germ that it must be magnified a thousand times before it is seen distinctly under th the microscope it lodges in the nose and throat during the first thirty six hours of influenza infestation then attacks the lungs in such a way as to make them susceptible to other germs in the nose and throat at notably those of pneumonia and bronchitis |