SPAHLINGER SERUM.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 6

SPAHLINGER SERUM.

SIR NEVILLE HOWSE VERY DUBIOUS. FOBBES ((N.S.W.), January 20. Sir Neville Howse, V.C., who has just, returned from a visit to Europe, when asked his opinion on tlae Spahlinger serum question, stated that he had told Mr Bruce, whom he met in London, that he could not honestly recommend the payment of a penny of the Commonwealth 'a money toward the fund for going on with Spahlinger's alleged, cure : for tuberculosis, ' because he did not honestly feel that he would pay a penny of his own. In Australia Dr. Page had informed him that most of the other members who had attended the conference would probably be supporting assistance of the lawyer-chemist's experiments, but Sir Neville had said that he could not do so after most carefully reviewing the evidence. The Americans, he said, were supporting his views at the present time.

In an interesting review of the ihanufacturo ~of the Swiss serum, Sir Neville explained it took eight months to. prepare the partial serum and from three to four years to make the complete vaceinej which had to be passed through horses for straightening of the twenty-two properties necessary to combat the tubercular bacilli in the human system. In spite of the fact that the New Zealand Government had been recommended to give its financial support, Sir Neville said he would remain firm in Kis persistence not to recommend the Commonwealth Government to paymoney for something he could not honestly support.