SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS 



Abstracts of Communications 

 One hundred twenty-seventh meeting. 



Cornell University Medical College, New York City. 

 December 20, 1022 



President Wallace in the chair. 

 60 (2020) 



Is Bacillus Acidophilus therapy a strictly bacteriological 

 phenomenon? 



By NICHOLAS KOPELOFF. 



[From the Department of Bacteriology, Psychiatric Institute, 

 Ward's Island, New York City.] 



Having obtained relief from chronic constipation and diarrhea 

 by treatment with milk fermented with B. Acidophilus, further 

 studies are in progress to determine whether the essential nature 

 of this phenomenon is physical, chemical or bacteriological. 



Subject to the limitations of the material under consideration 

 the following points have been established : 



1. B. Acidophilus therapy is not a physical phenomenon since 

 patients receiving sterile milk were not relieved of constipation. 



2. B. Acidophilus therapy apparently is not a strictly chemical 

 phenomenon, since patients receiving B. Acidophilus milk which 

 had been pasteurized to kill all living forms, were not relieved 

 of constipation. 



3. B. Acidophilus therapy appears to be essentially a 1>acterio- 



