BREAD THAT KEEPS SIX YEARS
M DEATH TEST" AT EXHIBITION Bread that will keep for six years without deterioration was among the many food products on view at the London Medical Exhibition recently. Between the stands showing the latest features of scientific research in surgical and medical appliances were food preparations for all sorts of emergencies, including:— Biscuits that will not hurt diabetics who are suffering from chronic hunger. Garlic (with a. charcoal mixture) quite pleasant to takeCod liver oil in a new .form. Malt foods, milk foods, bottled vitaminiq compounds and baked stale crusts. . One preparation shown should specially interest women who wish for a fashionable figure. It is an injection, which, if is claimed, reduces body weight by 81b a month without fasting by the patient. ... A firm is showing an injection which is a test for death. When injected under the skin a certain color reaction takes place. , ■ If the tissues are dead, then no change occurs. If life is present, the flash turns a green color within five minutes. Cases of drowning and asphyxiation can be easily tested by this means.
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Evening Star, Issue 19436, 20 December 1926, Page 12
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185BREAD THAT KEEPS SIX YEARS Evening Star, Issue 19436, 20 December 1926, Page 12
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