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Shiga, dis- covered the bacillus which causes a great many cases of dysentery, and since it was already known that an amoeba (an animal and not a vegetable organism) was the cause of many other cases, pathologists are now able to divide this terrible affliction of the soldier in war-time into amcebic dysentery and bacillary dysentery. But we have lately been informed that Dr. Shiga has met with success in taking the step which is now expected to follow the discovery of any disease-producing, or... pathogenic, microbe — that of preparing from it an antitoxic serum. This is now being produced in Frankfort, and just as Dr. Kitasato was able to obtain the anti-diphtheritic serum from the horse, '3 185 Digitized by Google THE CYCLE OF LIFE SO Dr. Shiga has been able to obtain his anti- dysenteric serum from the same animal. It is probable that this discovery will lower the dysen- tery death-rate — on both sides, for science takes no cognisance of race or frontiers — in the present terri- ble campaign.
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