A DIET OF GERMS
Results of two winters' research into the prevention. of (he .common cold have been described in the journal of the American Medical Association. Three medical scientists set out to test the efficacy of a new vaccine which wag administered in capsules. Each capsule contained twenty-five billion pncumococci, five billion influenza bacilli, fifteen billion streptococci, and five billion of the catarrhal germ known as micrococcus catarrhalis. These were administered' before breakfast daily during the first week, and thereafter once or twice a week. It is claimed thai the statistics of the second year revealed a decrease of 70 per cent, in the average number of colds. The germs were sterilised' before being placed in the capsules, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 124, 21 November 1935, Page 6
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120A DIET OF GERMS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 124, 21 November 1935, Page 6
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