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Show 00-0HK00000 Disease Germs Cannot Live in Mother's Milk not this power. Doctor Schiaeppl has succeeded in filtering milk, obtaining a clear greenish liquid which contained con-tained albumin but no fat. The germs naturally contained in the milk stayed back with the fat, but the power to kill bacteria remained In the clear filtrate. fil-trate. This was p.-sved hy adding germs to the filtrate, which destroyed them. Scientists have known for some time that babies fed on mother's milk were protected In some mysterious fashion from various diseases such as whooping whoop-ing cough, measles, diphtheria and the like. Now II oppears that tlr mother's moth-er's milk actually has the power of killing disease germs. Dr. Friedrlch Schiaeppl, bacteriologist at Berne, Switzerland, has experimented with milk from nursing mothers' and found that the milk has this bactericidal power to a very high degree. If the milk Is kept at a mean temperature this power -may be demonstrated for sixty hours or more. Such bacteria ns get Into it are at least very much retarded In their development If rait actually killed. The milk Is even able lo desir'iy Imclerln which do not normally nor-mally occur In it. Boiled milk has |