FUMES TO COMBAT GERMS

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 35, 6 February 1930, Page 2

FUMES TO COMBAT GERMS

Medicinal fumes prepared to combat and Mil germs form 3. new and important means of rendering people immune from iidSuenza.. T3ie fumes can be taken in a specail inhalation chamber >atJ Humanity House, Pimlico> London, where foT 3d anyone can avaii himself or herself of this new method adopted iby: the British Humane Association. It is the only in&alatorium in the>eountry/ and holds,about 30 people. "While inhalation does not confer immunity, it does reduce the risk of infection to a ■miTti-mnyrij and it is an excellent plan to undergo the treatment two or three times a week. The procedure is simple and takes only 10 minutes. In the middle of a room is a pedestal bowl in whick is a revolving wheel, consisting of tubes containing air and a liquid which comes forth in spray so fine that people sitting on one side of the room ! are only dimly visible to those sitting : opposite. „ On the wall are .phials containing liquid drugs whieS. blend with the spray. The idea is to prevent father than cuTe influenza; in fact, people SHfferjng from any sort of cold would derive eonsideTable benefit from

inhalation.