LONGEVITY OF GERMS.
EXPERIMENT IN BRITAIN. SURPRISE FOR SCIENTIST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received December 1, 5,5 p.m.) A. aud N.Z. RUGBY, Nov. 30. The Evening Standard learns that a remarkable result has followed an experiment that was made with deadly germs by Sir William Simpson, the director of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Putney Heath. A tube was sealed many years ago, and had remained scaled. Sir William has recently devoted his attention to the covering whether the germs in the tube are still alive. To his astonishment, he found them to be alive. A guinea pig was inoculated with the germs, and after showing the well-known symptoms of the disease, it died. Further work is proceeding. It is recognised that in the light of such a happening it may become necessary to revise completely the views previously held on the longevity of bacilli. It is said that tho longest period hitherto in which life had persisted in a culturo of this kind was one year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 11
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166LONGEVITY OF GERMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 11
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