DEATH POWDER.
A newly-discovered bacillus, of which a mere, pinch would kill a million men. was described by Professor Leonard Hill in his presidential address to (he Santtnry Inspectors’ Association conference l L r? tOf A (!IC T fIiDS t 0 a rc Port in the Daily Chronicle). “1 would call your attention,” he said, “to a certain bacillus which shall be nameless, but is easily cultivated. If men ..re as susceptible as guinea-pigs are to the toxin produced by this bacillus—and there is reason to think that they arc—it would appear that one gramme, say, a salt spoonful, of the dry toxin would suffic* fo kill a million. The toxin acts if in haled or if it fall, on the eye ;.s ; pow dcr. If men sot out to prepare such a toxjn and scatter it by aeroplane, what wonh be the use of the panoply of war’ Is it not time to cud the waste of money on preparations for war and apply the money so saved to preventing disease?”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 10
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172DEATH POWDER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 10
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