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A REPORT OF THIRTY-SIX CASES

LOUIS WEINSTEIN, Ph.D.; JAMES E. WEISS, B.S.; LEO F. RETTGER, Ph.D.; MAURICE N. LEVY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;52(3):384-397.

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Acidophilus milk as originally devised by Rettger and Cheplin in 1922¹ was the culmination of a series of efforts to establish a culture medium for the growth and study of Bacillus acidophilus which would preserve a high degree of viability of the organism and serve to meet various experimental and practical needs. Intensive search during the past ten years by various laboratories for a substitute possessing the merits of acidophilus milk in a form that would be more readily portable and with a potency relatively permanent has not attained any degree of success, so far as we are aware.

The principle of acidophilus therapy is based on the following well known observations: 1. B. acidophilus, or a closely related aciduric organism, constitutes the bulk of the intestinal flora of breast-fed infants. 2. The oral administration of lactose or dextrin to man and lower animals stimulates the development of B. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.; BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

From the Department of Bacteriology, Yale University.

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