Beaver Press | 1913-10-24 | Page 5 | Who's Who and Why

I 1 SEARCH FOR CUREALL CURE ALL the panacea or drug that will cure all diseases was waa tho the dream of the tha ancient student of medicine it has baa not yet been found nor la is it likely to be yet there id 14 at least ono great medical authority who expects to dla dis cover it tor for one particular class of 0 diseases namely those caused by bacterial infection there la is nothing illogical in tho the idea of a substance that la Is fatal to all bacterial organisms indeed such substances are already known but unfortunately those 4 with which most moat people are familiar will kill the patient as well in no an address before the recent international congress of medicine in london prof paul ehrlich famous as tho the discoverer of sal varean announced his hope of obtaining what ho he calls a complete radical cure of all infective diseases A report in th the hospital london august 16 says many people associate ehrlich simply with the much talked ot of his sensational discovery of three years ago and outside bacteriological circles this la Is perhaps his chief title to fame it Is well to realize how bow ever that ehrlich Is a man of most exceptional genius fentus whose bold speculations and imaginative theories have been the outstanding features of bacteriological teri progress any time this last 12 or 14 years it will not lie be surprising it if by the time of the next international con gress greas tn in london Ehrlic hs name has bas been promoted f to a the company of the immortals lister pasteur and the rest As a matter of interest we may note that the professor Is nearly sixty y so BO that it he be lives ilves to see that congress and it if it meets in london after a similar interval of time to that which elapsed between this just concluded ono one and its predecessor ho he will be well over ninety years of age we wish him length ol of years to visit us again when that time comes Pr tl