The "Evening Standard" learns} that a remarkable result has followced an experiment made with a deadly germ by Sir William Simpson, director at the Hospital for Tropicall Diseases. Twenty-five years ago, Sir William placed in a test tube bacilli-taken from a patient suffer. ing from one of the most dreaded diseases. The tube was sealed and for all those years has remained #0. Now Sir William has devoted his} attention to discovering whether the germs still are-alive. To his ame tonishment, He found them to. be alive. Av guinea-pig. was inoculated with them andj after showing wells
died, Keown symptoms of the aiseae, Further work is proceeding, 8 being recognized: that, in the light of such a happening, it may bocomd necessary to-revise completely thd views previously, held-on the Jonge evity of bacilli. Tt ig said that tha longest, preied' recorded hitherto int which life: has persisted in culture of this kind is one year—British Wireless through Reuter, Again Science Has
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