The Archive · 1937

Young Chinese Can Swallow Deadly Bacteria

IMMUNITY CLAIMED FROM DISEASE

Nanking, Feb. 15.

Declaring that he is immune from six kinds of disease germs, Mr, Sulu Chi, a Cantonese youth of 24, has applied' to the Central Health Field Station here for a medical test to Prove his claim, Mr, Ssutu, who arrived in Nanking: from' Shanghai to-day, claimed munity from disease germs of small ox, Influenza, cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery, and bubonic -plague, and declared "he would readily cat a mouthful of all six -of these deadly germs at the same time without showing any sign of infection.

'Mr, Ssulu's wishes, however, will most probably not be complied' with, it being held that in the history of medical science instances are not lacking where a person' may. take several kinds of pathological bacteria without any physical harm, The taking and injection of disease dealing germs, it was explained,.are two entirely different things. There are not a few persons who, duc to their special physical condition, are Immune to the. germs when taken In by the digestive syatem—Centrnt

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