WAR ON MICROBES
In the Mavo Hospital clinic of New York a new lamp has been introduced to kill microbes.
The microbe death ray is the invention of Dr. Harvey Rcntschler, and is 6hed by a lamp dealing out ultra-violet rays of a special kind, and of exceedingly small wavelength, hardly more than a millionth of an inch. Such rays are quite harmless to human beings, b.ut are effective against the unseen microbes which float in the air of laboratories and operating theatres. Their usefulness has proved itself to the surgeons of the hospital. These rays were first tried in experiments with food preservation, and are becoming popular with those who keep food in refrigerators. The rays rid the refrigerating chambers of all food microbes
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23055, 4 June 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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125WAR ON MICROBES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23055, 4 June 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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