Show t W 1 W 7 PHYSICIAN WHO SAYS HE HAS FOUND CAUSE OF SMALLPOX aa aas dr councilman who is a member of the faculty of harvard medic medical school hool gave in boston the details of the important discovery be he has made mac the e nature of the germ that causes smallpox THE CAUSE OF SMALLPOX boston phys c an claims to have made important D dr william T councilman probes sor of pathology in the harvard medi cal school made a formal statement last week to the boston society of medical science announcing the dis coven covern of the cause of smallpox the cause has been determined to be the protozoa the lowest form ot of in mal 1 fe the honor of making this discovery is divided dr councilman who made the formal announcement gave out the following statement this announcement Is the outcome of an investigation conducted by drs councilman george burgess magrath and lv walter alter remsen brinckerhoff rith ith the operation cooperation co of the boston board of health during the recent epidemic of the disease in this city it has been bee determined that smallpox Is caused by a microorganism micro organism representative of the lowest form of animal life this tact fact serves to relate the disease with ma laria and to distinguish it from many other infectious diseases caused by minute forms of vegetable life known as bacteria dr councilman did not give many details but said the work had been going on since 1901 dr brinckerhoff of the city hospital staff lived among malleo mall pox po patients in boston harbor for se sei eral weeks in a habitation hard I 1 11 worthy of being called a shelter in order to gather the material with which dr councilman pursued his ir he told how rabbits and monkeys were experimented upon upon iroc or exposure to smallpox rab bits have disease similar to smallpox but it la Is not smallpox the monkey however representing a higher form oi of life was affected much the same as a human being and had smallpox practically in the same stages that man suffers dr councilman told how research in the field of bacteriology was first exhausted without finding the cauce cau t f tl 0 e disease then fa a ling back on anatomy the research resea ch was continued and it was finally decided after re heated experiments that an organism the zoa was wa s the cause of the dis ease A protozoa belongs to the ani mal I 1 ingdon and so the field for further investigation is pathological rather than bacteriological |