ON GERMS AND CRIME
SCIENCE MAKES WAR The winning light against malefactors. human as well as microbe, that is being waged by science, was illustrated by a demonstration at the City of London Hospital, Victoria Park, E.2. A small glass case containing several little dots was exhibited to show how some kinds of London milk carry germs from the dairy to London babies. Every dot represented many millions of bacteria. This formidable army came from milk bought in a shop under ordinary conditions. Another glass ease showed the result of a similar test with tuberculin tested milk, and in this instance only 4,000 bacteria had survived. In the collection of microscopes and other delicate instruments is one which has dramatic and terrible interest. It is the apparatus by which arsenic poisoning is traced and crime revealed. Into a glass flask, heated by a burner, are placed pieces of tissue. Gas Is generated, and this passes through calcium acting as a drying agent. A bluish light emerges at the end
of a tube, and if this light gives a s 1 ur.e black mark on a white surB *?'■'* l '' e Presence of arsenic is estabM »ua- 0.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 16
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196ON GERMS AND CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 16
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