| Show J scientists now on trail of secrets of wonder working bacteria eaters strange tales come from new yos aquarium recalling the healing springs of meo medieval leval days people afflicted with skin diseases beg for permission to dip their hinds hands into tanks lank teeming with tropical fish it I 1 is because slide of a casual announcement made by doctors coates and breder won dering why aquarium water remained clear and healthful despite the fish that swarn swam in it they hit bit upon the bac terio phage devour devourer cr of bacteria doe boar coat coates es own festered hand healed wonderfully when accidentally brought in contact with aquarium water bac hages cases of sk skin in diseases have been similarly cured the discovery Is not lot wholly new in 1915 lol i the Englis englishman limin ewort in ort saw vultures cultures 0 of f deadly cocci killed by a derived le rivel from others of their idila ilor ilof liello dller dIle eUe relle made the same discovery independently after tile the war and applied it practically in Al mexico exico and india Is there perhaps a au an organism so insatiable that it will devour all forms of microbe life evidently the days of the romantic accident are not gone kone in science there is still room for the keen eye the inquisitive mind the haphazard roper but having recognized tills this the real test of biology begins to discover a 11 diamond Is one thing to relate it chemically to graphite coal and charcoal is another so with will the bacteria eaters what are the they y no microscope can reveal them they pass through the finest filters A pretty controversy is raging about them some hold that they are ultramicroscopic parasites others are convinced that they ought to be classed with the filterable particles which ar are likewise untra ultramicroscopic microscOpic but vi which can pro propagate only in living cells that they infect where there is so much guessing there is work to be done clone yet it Is clear enough that medicine and bacteriology stand upon the threshold of an advance is as great as any ever made new york times |
