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Show Discovery of the Cause of Smallpox- The announcement of the discovery of smallpox was made by Dr. Councilman Council-man of the Harvard medical school at a recent meeting of the Boston Society So-ciety of Medical Science. The announcement an-nouncement is the outcome of the investigations in-vestigations conducted by Dr. Councilman, Coun-cilman, Dr. George Burgess Mograthr. and Dr. Walter Remsen BrinckerhorL. with the co-operation of the Boston beard of health, during the recent epidemic of the disease in Boston. It has been determined that smallpox is-caused is-caused by a micro-organism representative repre-sentative of the lowest form of animal life. This fact serves to show a relation re-lation between smallpox and such dis- ' eases as malaria and to distinguish; it from many other infectious diseases caused by bacteria. |