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Until 1894 there was no exact method of curing diphtheria. That year the German, Emil A. von Behring, progressing along research lines which Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch had opened, discovered that the poisons which the diphtheria germ gave out stimulated, if injected into an animal, antitoxins in the animal's blood. Such antitoxins, injected into an active case of diphtheria, counteracted the effects of the toxins, cured the disease...
...wine-growing France, Professor Maurice Loeper of the Sorbonne last week completed a study purporting to prove that wine assists digestion, contains vitamins, radioactive properties. The finished Loeper document is an expansion of the famed Louis Pasteur proverb: "Wine is the most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages." Into many a language will the document be translated by Office International du Vin, an anti-prohibitionist organization which claims it is "a sincere friend of temperance and a bitter enemy of alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense...
...finals of the Pasteur Debate held last night in the Large Lecture Room of the New Fogg Museum, D.D. Lloyd '31 won first place with H.A. Wolff '29 getting honorable mention...
...finals of the annual debate for the Pasteur Medal for the best speech in English on some topic of contemporary French politics will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Large Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The subject of the debate will be, "Resolved: That French industry may adopt American methods of mass production without fear of compromising its individualistic advantages...
...Pasteur Medal, which is awarded annually by the French Department to the best debater on a subject drawn from contemporary French politics, was first presented in 1898 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin...