| Show FINI FIND SERUM tu TO N TA 11 CX i ia PILL LL FLU GER MS paris physician meets with success in anti plague experiments peri ments IN WORLD HIT new york hospital isolates ble sleeping sickness germ paris doctor docto r says saya influenza and sleeping sickness are twin diseases new york three quarters of the worlds norl ds population have been affected with spanish influenza which Is now declared to be the same disease as the sleeping sickness and a serum has been found to cure both according to reports experiments are being carried on here and in paris simultaneously with the receipt of word froni from paro that a serum scrum had been made by tit D charles polley folley which would cure hot both influenza and sleeping sickness camo a report from bellerue hospital that a preliminary report had been linued from mount blount sinai of the probable isolation of he sleeping sickness sickles germ to produce a serum to cure the on lethar lethargies gien us as the sleeping sickness Is known to science it would ie e necessary to segregate the germ of he disease as serums are made from froin lie he disease germs themselves tile the live erms in the blood being killed by the into the blood of the dead bodies of the same germs tha germ of spanish influenza is mid laid to love have been isolated but no perfect serum is known to have been pro juned use flu genus gems doctor polley folley in paris produced the berum tor for the cure of sleeping sickness without isolating tile the encephalitis I 1 9 germ at all batby using terms of influenza which led him to issert that the two are iii e twin diseases disease ind caused by the same germ under SH A If Terent ferent conditions the same serum scrum with which he cured nany cases of influenza was found effective in curing sleeping sickness Ic kness tills this theory of twin diseases s borne out in tile famous mrs mantz asp here where the sleeping sickness roll followed owed a severe attack of spanish in flu buenzon enzil at the office of doctor simmers at bellevue it was said that flint mount blount sinni hospital researchers were not ready to lo state positively they had segregated the sleeping sickness germ and that no formal announcement of the germs discovery had been issued A preliminary repart had stated the doctors at mount sinal sinai had succeeded if ID finding a gl body of infinitesimal proportions port liDas which was believed to be the possible germ or cause of the disease to publish report experiments with the body are now being carried on at mount blount sinal sinai a complete report of 0 the findings of the researchers there will be issued in due time it was said doctor polley in paris said there are 2 cases of the flu annually ond this year because ot of nc oi worldwide world wide epidemic 1 I did riot not invent this anti plague sei erti uni and ad it was only after I 1 had made successful experiments on myself that I 1 used it on others since that time I 1 and other physicians have made thousands of cures and I 1 am convinced that the spanish and the sleeping sickness are the same disease while there Is no danger in em employing ploy this treatment there Is grave danger from influenza 1 influenza due to the great number of cases which are constantly increasing every day nearly three quarters of the population ot of the world has already been more or less affected with it |
