GAS WARFARE ON COLDS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 1

GAS WARFARE ON COLDS

(By Science .Service). Poison gas i- being tried on the Senate of the United State, ’flu ( heiuii al Warfare Service supplies tingas, the Senate survives and thrives under the treatment. The only fatali-

ties are among the maleficent germs that set'll to pasture themselves in senatorial throats and iungs to the detriment of the health of that body. Every day front 11 to 12 the room n! the Senate Commit Lee on Appropriations i* turned into a gas chamber, and into it walk fearlessly the leading orators of both the Senate and the I lease who happen to lie suffering I rum colds, c itiglis. or other impairment of the viral and respiiatorv organs. The gas is turned on and they remain in it for :-i hour or so, engaged in reading or conversation until the time foi the treatment has expired. Tlw gas used is t hlorine. the same as that used in the historic first gas attack of the Gormans at Ypres in 1915. The ttilfci-enee is in (oneentrntion. The Germans ittcil the pure gas. For use against senatorial colds it i* diluted to something like one part of (hlorine to from 100.000 to

130.000 narts of air. In this dilution the gas is harelv perceptible, and

after a few minutes exposure to it. the nation!* are said not to"'"notice it at all. Its effect when *o diluted is to trill the bacteria in the respiratory organs without causing any con-

gestion or irritation. .Many senators and representative* have taken the treatment for colds and have testified as to'its efficacy. Those who take an hour or so of gas treatment dnilv are free from such complaints. while nearly all those already affected with colds find themselves speedily improved hv the use of the chlorinated air.