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...Herelle's resignation made no headlines, but in New York a development in his specialty did. Tucked away in the New York Aquarium's annual report a Sun newshawk had discovered this modest paragraph...
...investigated, promptly reported a sensational discovery which might be a major contribution to medicine. Other newspapers followed suit. Scientists were interested but less exuberant. Charles Marcus Breder Jr. is the Aquarium's able young assistant director. After the War, which kept him from going to college, he got a job with the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, went to the Aquarium in 1921. Three years ago he began to investigate the reason why unchanged water in balanced aquaria$#134; sometimes does not become foul. He discovered an active bacteriophage both in old aquarium water and in the intestinal contents...
...Christopher William Coates, had also gone into the Army instead of to college, but had kept up his study of fish during the after years in which he was earning a living in the radio business. The discovery set Fishman Coates to thinking. If the phage destroyed bacteria in aquarium water. why shouldn't it destroy them in human infections...
From the intestinal contents of fish he prepared a concentrated solution of the bacteriophage. Then he deliberately set about getting his own hands infected. He dipped them repeatedly in his phage solution, soon saw them healing up. Word of his success brought other skin sufferers to the Aquarium. One man said his affliction had resisted treatment for 20 years. His hands were so sore and scaly that he could not close them. After plunging them in the phage solution several times a week for three months he could grip a golf club. Last week Researcher Coates had 18 other favorable...
...dermatologists to carry on and find out what it is." Chief fear of Researcher Coates last week was that news of his work might set skin sufferers everywhere to dipping themselves in convenient goldfish or guppy bowls. Bacteriophage may or may not be present in the water of an aquarium. But even if present it is too weak to be of any therapeutic value...