Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1929, Page 29

THE EVENING MEDICAL JOURNAL TOHITFLU' STORY Editorial Will Cail Germ Iso- lation - Announcement Unwarranted. By the Ascociated Press. CHIEAGO, December 17.—The Amer- fean Medical Association, through its Journal, will in its next issue denounce | “as unwarranted” the anaouncement of | Dr. 1. S. Falk that he had isolated the influenza germ. Dr. Falk, professor of hygiene and| bacteriology at the University of Chi- cago, announced last Friday through the publicity department of the uni-| versity that he and his laboratory as- sistants had successfully isolated the germ causing influenza, and had been | led to hope, through further experi-| ments, that a preventive vaccine might be prepared. “With little if any apparent warrant.” | the medical journal will say, “it is again , announced for at least the tenth time in five years that the causative organ- Ism of influenza has been discovered, and that it is hoped to prepare a vac- cine, There is thus far little or no evi- dence in_ scientific medical literature, or even in spoken addresses, to indi- | cate that 1. S. Falk, Ph. D. and his| assoeiates have progressed any further toward the solution of this problem than have workers in other parts of | the world, now or in the past.” To Be Published Saturday. | The editorial will add that certain dafly publications “succeeded in con- fusing antitoxins, vaccines and similar scientific terms in a manner which can be explained only by the undue haste with which the announcement was rushed, to the audience. The furore is | inexcusable.” | The Journal is edited by Dr. Morri: Fishbein. The next issue, containing the editorial, will be published Satur- | day. “All T can say,” Dr. Falk told the | Associated Press yesterday, “is that I| made my report before the Bactefiology | Club of the University of Chicago, and | the evidence will shortly be in print | mode detailed form.” Dr. Falk in his announcement said the influenza germ was of the pleomor- phic streptococeus type. He succeeded, with the use of a pure culture, he said. in transmitting influenza to monkeys. * He also announced he had been p: tially successful in immunizing monkevs | by the use of vaccine prepared from ~dead germ cultures. | Praised by London Physician. Contrasting with the Medical Asso- clation criticism were words of praise for Dr. Falk from Dr. David Thompson of London, who was quoted in an Asso- ciated Press dispatch. Dr. Thompson has been engaged in influenza research for the past three years. Dr. Edwin Oakes Jordan, head of the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology of the University of Chicago, under whom Dr, Folk worked, said, when in- formed of the attack on his junior's | assertions: “Final judgment on Dr. Falk's work can, of course, come only when the evi- dence that he has gathered is available in scientific journals to other workers in the same field, and when cultures of the micro-organism that he had ob- tained can be experimented with under a variety of conditions. His experi- | ha gantlet of repetition and confirmation | In other laboratories.” DR. PARKS SCA! FINDINGS. Unverified as Yet, However, by Member of Influenza Board. NEW YORK, December 17 (#).—In- formed of the action of the Journal | of the American Medical Association in deprecating Dr. Isadore S. Falk's an- nouncement in Chicago that he had discovered the germ that causes in- fluenza, Dr. William H. Parks, a mem- ber of the influenza commission, said vesterday he had not had the oppor- tunity to verify Dr. Falk's findings. “All I can say is that it is a very houghtful piece of work, whether he found the germ or not,” added Dr. Parks, who is director of the Bureau of Laboratories of the New York City Department of Health. 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