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Last week Professor Felix d'Herelle???scarcely a name to the public but at Yale a tallish, dark, impatient, much respected protobiologist?gave the New York Academy of Medicine his explanation of such phenomena. Completely invisible parasites which he calls bacteriophage (TIME, May 28, 1923; Aug. 30, 1926) infest the microscopically visible germs and in some unknown way kill them. The microbes seem to dissolve into clear liquid. They are dead, for their residue cannot cause disease. But the residue is a potent poison of germs...
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