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Show FINDS SPECIFIC FOR INFLUENZA CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Dr. Louis J. Pint, former state bacteriologist and at present connected with the research laboratory of the University of Chicago, told the Chicago Chi-cago Medical society tonight that he had succeeded in isolating the germs responsible respon-sible for the so-called influenza epidemic which is sweeping the country, and that the regulation diphtheria antitoxin is an absolute specific for the disease. The germs responsible for the disease, which, he said, is not influenza, he gave as staphylococcus aureus, which is usually responsible for carbuncles; streptococcus, which causes blood poison, and Vincent angina, which causes sore mouths. He said the epidemic was mainly caused by the present war diet and especially bv the curtailment of the usual consumption of sugar. Dr. Pint said that he had treated seventy-five cases with the diphtheria diph-theria antitoxin without the loss of a single case. |