—A uewly-discovorcd bacillus, of which a mere pinch would kill a million meji. was described by Professor Leonard Hill in his presidential address to the Sanitary Inspectors' Association Conference. "I would-call your attention," he said, "to a certain bacillus which shall be nameless, but is easily cultivated. If men are as susceptible as guinea piss are to the toxin produced by this bacillus—and there ia reason to think they are—it would appear that one gramme, say a saltspoonful. of the dry toxin would suffice to kill a million. The toxin acts if inhaled or if it falls on the eye as a powder. If men set put to prepare such a toxin and scatter it by aeroplane, what would be the. use of the panoply of war? Is it not time to end the waste of money on preparations for war and apply the money so saved on preventing disease? " Woods' Great Peppermint Cure For Children's Hacking Gough.—Advt.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20991, 2 April 1930, Page 12
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