DISEASE GERMS FROM AEROPLANE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 4

DISEASE GERMS FROM AEROPLANE.

•LONDON, July 12.— Dr. Charles _. viayo of Rochester, Minn., addressing: a« select group of prominent British scientists and officials, astonished them by. predicting that the next war would be one of bacteria dropped from airplanes over enemy cities. Speaking- at a dinner m his honor tendered by the officers and- board of governors of the American Hospital m London, ahd m presence of Ambassador Davis, Lord Reading, Lord Bryce, Arthur James Balfour and othei* distinguisned. people, he aald that as .medical, science advanced "It would make it almost impossible for annie*s to fight. "In tbe future what will war be like? "It will be a war of invisible organism, it will be a war of droimmg capsules of bacteria over cities, which will have the most destructive effects." Dr. Mayo's speech was m the nature or a review ot the programme of medical science. He declared that the next advance In clvillsaton would be m medicine that group medicine and not individual work was the. future of medicine, and that medical men, especially those m England and America should deyote their efforts m "the line of humanity," because while the next war might be one of bacteria, it would be. the task of doctors *n the futui'e to preveht casualties from the '{erm bombs of enemy powers! One df Emglanfl's noted physicians who sat beside you* correspondent, • added that doctors would be Ihe field marshals of future wars. > ■■ * While lir. Mayo's speech was the most "striking/ he had competitors at the dinner m AtthUr j. Balfour, Lord Reading, Ambassador Davis and Sir Arbuthnot Lane. Dr.YMayo spoke of them who dig their graves' with -their teeth and alluded to Bolshevism as -a cancer on the earth. Lord Reading alluded to the Mayo brothers as "manufacturers of health and producers of happiness." : Mr. Balfour paid tribute to the Amcr[lean hospital -"as a scientific link between,pie two English-speaking pepples," land added that while Dr. % Mayo devoted j considerable time to telling us. what added horrors medical wars ' would give us m the future; this Was not his main theme.' What Dr. JMayo thought of was the diminution .of human suffering-"