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Show B3. ISIIG OAS NO FAI7S E LEIONJHiGE. THEORY aty fhysiciaa Agrees With the Hew York Expert as to Hew Typhoid Germ Destroyer. Much ado has been raised over the alleged al-leged discovery by the Chicago Health department that lemon Juice is sure death to typhoid fever germs, it having i been claimed that one teaspoonful of lemon Juice In half a glassful of water would destroy the germs contained In It. The announcement made on Christmas day by Dr. Asa Ferguson of London that the Juice of the lemon was a deadly dead-ly foe to typhoid fever has helped to give the matter world-wide publicity, and since then a great deal, both pro and con, has been published upon the Bubject. Dr. J. C. E. King, City Physician, said today that the alleged discovery was hardly worth taking any notice of, and unreservedly expressed himself as considering con-sidering the discovery, so called, nothing noth-ing more than one of the usual chimeras that arise every now and then and are heralded throughout the country. He expressed himself as thoroughly agreeing with Dr. W H. Park, bacteriologist bacteri-ologist of the Department of Health of New York, who made several experiments experi-ments with the Juice and the germs, and made microscopical examinations of typhoid ty-phoid bacilli which had been subjected to the action of lemon Juice, and who found that although it would kill the germs. It was not practicable, requiring too much acid and too much time for the chemical action to take place. Dr. Park also said that it was far safer to boll or filter the water than to trust to lemon Juice to destroy typhoid bacilli that might be In it. Dr. King concurs in these oplnlfcns, saying there is nothing tn the Idea of lemon Juice being a germicide, and as for taking the acid as a remedy for this disease, he says it would all be absorbed by the system long before it reached the Intestines, and would avail nothing in the cure of typhoid fever. |