News comes from Rome which, if indeed true, is highly important and welcome. According to it the "Jessaggero" of Rome, announces that two Italian scientists, Professor Giovanni di Cristina, of Palermo, and Professor Giuseppi Carolia, of Rome, have discovered the specific germ of scarlet fever. The journal says that Professor di Christina some years ago succeeded in demonstrating that from the blood and marrow of those infected with scarlet fever it was possible to obtain a vaccine with which children could be made immune from infection. These observations were continued by Professor Carolia, who has succeeded in isolating the germ of scarlet fever. It is described as a special slightly ovoid micro-organism arranged in pairs. The severity of scarlet fever varies enormously in different parts of the world. In England it is serious, of course, but not, we think, necessarily alarming. In Bermuda. it is perfectly possible to have it without being conscious of anything worse than a little malaise. In China it is appallingly swift and deadly. But whether severe or light, the doctors' difficulty was equally the same, that they did not know how to fight it because they had never known what it really was.
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