Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1913 — A DOCTOR S DISCOVERY. [ARTICLE]

A DOCTOR S DISCOVERY.

What gives promise of being one of the most beneficial discoveries in the history of the world was modestly suggested by Dr. Albert Calmette director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille, France, in the course of an address before the International conference on tuberculosis in Vienna. He reported that he had been able to render all the animals used for experiment at the Institute —cattle, sheep, and guinea-pigs—immune against the most formidable doses of tuberculosis virus. That is to say, the immunization has been complete for the eleven months dunng which they have been under observation. If it be proved that it is permanent, or that it lasts even for a period of only a few years, and that a similar treatment may be applied to human beings, the importance of this little heralded discovery can hardly be over-estimated.—Leslie’s Weekly.