CHLORINE FOR COLDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19283, 22 September 1924, Page 8

CHLORINE FOR COLDS.

NEW ROLE FOR POISON GAS. Chlorine as a cure for colds is becoming the fashion in high and low American circles. Doctors believe they may be on the track of a cure which will overcome influenza epidemics' and all pulmonary complaints (says the Daily Express). President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge are the latest patients to undergo the chlorine cure; and, in fact, a large number of members of Congress and distinguished persona at the national capital have allowed themselves to be subjects for the experiments which the Army Medical Service is carrying out. The chlorine cure was discovered by chance at the poison gas arsenal at Edgewood, Maryland, during the war. When the war influenza epidemic was at ita height none of the employees at the arsenal’s chlorine plant suffered. Medical officers were interested by this inexplicable fact. They investigated, and found the chlorine cure, which only lately has come to public notice. The method of treatment is to mix on© ounce of chlorine gas with 60,000 cubic feet of air, in a room made airtight, so that the proportions of chlorine and air can bo controlled. Patients sit in the room for about an hour, simply breathing the chlorine air, which is renewed from time to time. One treatment often is sufficient to drive the cold away, but sometimes two treatments ara taken.