Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1892 — THE GRIP BACILLUS IS CAUGHT. [ARTICLE]

THE GRIP BACILLUS IS CAUGHT.

Shaped Like the Letter H and One-Twen-tieth a* Large as a Klood Corpuscle. According to a Paris dispatch the microbe of influenza has been at last captured and dragged out to the light of day. The discoverers are Profs. Cornel and Chantemesse, who hav® just made a communication to the Paris Academy of Medicine on the subject. The German doctors attributed the grip to a bacillus which permeated the blood of the respiratory organs, but nothing further was known on the subject until now, when these French physicians have succeeded in capturing some of the bacilli and cultivating them in bouillon after the Pasteur method. It is now found that these organisms are formed like the figure H, and the largest are in size barely the twentieth part of the diameter of a blood corpuscle. Experiments have been made on rabbits and monkeys, and the inoculated animals showed every symptom of influenza soon after they had been injected with a preparation obtained by the professors from the cultivation of the microbe. It is expected that the experiments conducted by the French savants will assist the medical faculty in providing an efficacious method for the prevention and Treatment of the malady.