Show Ancient AntiToxine A Boston doctor calls attention to the use by Mlthrldatcs a hundred years before this era began of what seems to have been a true antltoxlne Pliny relates that the Pontlc monarch made himself proof against poison by administering ad-ministering to himself an antidote whose principal Ingredient was the blood of a peculiar kind of duck native of that land and which had the reputation repu-tation of living exclusively on substances sub-stances fatal to human life This the Boston man thinks shows that the employment em-ployment of an immune animals blood to make another animal Immune Is avery a-very old idea and should deprive the inventors of the scrum treatment of any credit for originality Its a queer Idea sufficiently absurd to win serious consideration Boston New York Times |