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Sooner or later, whatever the earth produces it wrecks and reclaims. The wrecking job is done by an immense host of microorganisms. So it occurred to Dr. Rene Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute that there might exist in the earth powerful microorganisms capable of attacking disease germs that prey...
Several years ago Dr. Dubos, born in France, Ph.D. of Rutgers, set himself to find out. His method was essentially simple. He got a great many soil samples, mixed them with various germ cultures. If there was any organism in the soil sample that found a germ to its liking...
Dr. Dubos first found a soil bacterium that is bad news for pneumococcus, the pneumonia germ. The bacterium secretes an enzyme that dissolves the germ's tough outer covering or capsule, and the stripped pneumococcus is then easy prey for the body's natural defenses, as experiments with...
Then Dubos found in soil samples a spore-bearing bacillus which actually kills five kinds of pneumococcus; staphylococcus (the pus germ), streptococcus, the diphtheria bacillus. The killing agent is a non-protein substance which Dr. Dubos has isolated in crystalline form. One hundred-thousandth of a gram* of the stuff...
Dr. A very's triumph was to find an enzyme or ferment which has particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist...