Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-16 | Page 2 | New Theories About Microbe Are Set Forth

NEW THEORIES ABOUT MICROBE I i ARE SET FORTH Scientist Does Burbank Tricks With Causes of Disease ROCHESTER N T Y Aug 16 By 16 By The Associated Press In heredity which are expected to revolutionize med lent Ical conception of ot certain ses will wilt be announced by Dr Ralph n It Mellon of ot the staff of ot the High High- land Highland hospital here hero at the International congress of ot plant sciences s which opens In Ithaca N Y tonight to- to tonIght tonight nIght Dr Mellon who will represent sent the American Society of ot declared his discoveries are the result of ot fourteen years ears ot of o research It Is said that that Ey haa ha done to bacteria what Burbank did with plants Before Defore his hi departure tor for th the congress he stated that he has found proof of ot a new theory that microbe may be made mado to yield many varieties ot of o sports just a S as highe higher plants do and that some some- times sometimes the new varieties are loss less harmful germs that may be used In infighting fighting the harmful ones Some Some- I times Sometimes an entirely now new species re- re reI I suit modification through hereditary tion he ho said The theory theof revolutionizes the medical conception of ot diseases disease commonly thought of ot as having complications Dr Mellon said The which follow tollow sOme I diseases under the theory are not new flew bacteria that hat haio o gained a tooth foothold old because of the weakened condition of ot the body but may be simply descendants ot of the same sante bac- bac bac teria lena bacteria which caused the original disease