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Show HUMAN SKIN KILLS GERMS ' CHICAGO (li.R) Man's skin is the most remarkable disinfecting agent in exisy-nce, experiments ot University of Illinois medical research re-search scientists indicate. A series of tests under the direction di-rection of Dr. Lloyd Arnold of the University College of Medicine, showed that 98 per cent of thousands thou-sands of bacterial which has been placed in contact with human skin disappeared within ten minutes. Dangerous bacteria, such as those of lockjaw, boils, typhoid and dysentery, vanished ag quickly quick-ly as did the more harmless ones. "However, the skin has certain minute never-sterile areas where the germs do not disappear," Dr. Arnold reported. "Four such areas are under the fingernails, the thin line which marks the junction of the lip with the membrane lining of the nostrils, and the rim of the eyelid where the putside skin meets the inside lining. Dirt almost completely destroys the disinfecting qualities, the experiments ex-periments further showed. The percentage of bacteria which disappeared dis-appeared from unclean skin surfaces sur-faces was almost negligible in every case, the scientists found. |