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Show 'Sneeze Germs' Are Being Tried Out On Rabbits by Famous Physicians ROCHESTER. Minn.. Jsn. It (UP) On the aneese of a rabbit there hinged today a possible startling discovery dis-covery in medical science World famous physicians of the Mayo Brothers' clinic clustered about a rabbit hutch and watched intently as six animals hopped about. If one nf them sneezes, physicians said. It probably will lead to discovery ef a new and atrange disease. Mysterious bacilli, taken from the blood stream of 15 year-old Daisy Jost. Chippewa Falls, Wis., who sneeied at three-minute intervals for seven days, circulated through the rabbits' veins. Tha germs, which doctors war unable un-able to orientate, were removed from the girl aa she recovered from her strange malady, and Injected Into the rabbits. Although rabbits' nosea twitch m- cassantly, they seldom sneeze, experts explained. If one of the animals under un-der examination sneexee. It will be attributed at-tributed en the inoculation and the "sneexer germs' will be regarded aa definitely isolated. . None of tha physicians aald they had ever seen germs slmftar to those found In the girl's blood and throat. Since her protracted, aneexlng spell also waa rare, they believed there waa a close link between tha bacilli and tha malady. The experiment wln'not be abandoned, aban-doned, if none of the ra bolts sneeze today, until physicians are convinced the germs have had eufflclent time to become effective. Daisy waa reported virtually recovered recov-ered today ami apparently none the worse for 1 approximately - 10,000 sneeiea In seven days. |