Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — FINDS HYDROPHOBIA MICROBE [ARTICLE]

FINDS HYDROPHOBIA MICROBE

Germ Which Medical Men Have Sought for Decades Is Discovered by Pittsburg Doctor.

Pittsburg, Pa. —The microbe that causes hydrophobia,, which medical men the world over have been seeking for decades, has been discovered and photographed by Dr. Frederic Proescher, pathologist of the Allegheny General hospital. Dr. Proescher made the discovery in a microscopic examination of tissues from the nervous system of dogs, cats and horses naturally infected with hydrophobia, also of rabbits innoculated with virus. The remarkable resistance of virus to the outer invasion led the doctor to attempt to isolate the unknown microbe by dissolving the brain of animals infected with virus.

Dr. Proescher is the physician who has been experimenting with monkeys in an attempt to locate the microbe which causes infantile paralysis.