Pleasant Grove Review | 1936-03-20 | Page 6 | British Doctors Report Success with Doses of Cold Vaccine Weekly

I British Doctors Report Success With Doses of Cold Vaccine Weekly LONDON. Keep a bottle of common cold vaccine in your bedroom. Once a week throughout through-out the winter swallow a dose at night on an empty stomach. This advice for protecting yourself your-self against colds and influenza Is given by Drs. David Thomson, Robert Rob-ert Thomson and E. T. Thomson of St. Paul's hospital here. It is based on their researches on oral vaccine vac-cine for colds and influenza which they report to the British Medical Journal. Doses of the cold vaccine taken this way since September gave pro- 1 tection against colds and Influenza In spite of considerable exposure to these diseases, they report. The vaccine does not produce toxic effects ef-fects provided It Is not taken more than once a week. , . The vaccine used Is made up of Pfelffer's bacillus, pneumococci, streptococci and another nose and throat "germ" known as M. ca-tarrhalls. ca-tarrhalls. Serious colds and Influenza Influ-enza are, In the opinion of the English Eng-lish physicians, usually due secondarily sec-ondarily and sometimes primarily to those organisms or "germs."