Medicine: Streptococcus Destroyer

An invasion of the blood stream by the germ called Streptococcus haemolyticus may be one of the most dreadful diseases that can befall a human being. The germ, breeding in the blood, destroys the red cells. For lack of red blood cells, the victim of Streptococcus haemolyticus pines, fades. Baffled doctors try blood transfusion after blood transfusion. But almost invariably in fulminating cases the victim dies.

Last week Drs. William Thalhimer & Sidney Older Levinson of Chicago recommended a cure for this disease. In the American Medical Association Journal they pointed out that...