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Show Disease Germs Cannot Live in Mother's Milk Scientists have known for some time thai babies fed on mother's milk were protected In some mysterious fashion from various discuses such ns whooping whoop-ing rough, measles, (lipid herla nnd the like. Now II appears that th moth. it's milk nctnally has the power of killing disease genus. Or. Frledrlch Schlneppl, hiii-ti-rhilnglHt at Borne. Switzerland, has ex pertinent ed with milk from nursing mothers and found Hint the milk has this bactericidal power to n very high degree. If the milk Is kept at n mean temperature this jiower may tin dcmormlrulcd for sixly hours or more. Such huoicrlu as get Into II are at lea-it very much retarded In their development If v i nctnally killed. The milk Is even able to deruroy bacteria which do uo( nor 11 ally occur In II. Boiled milk line no) this power Doctor Srhlaeppl has succeeded In llltcrlng milk, obtaining a cl 111 r greenish liquid which con lalned albumin hut no rat. The genus naturally contained In Ihi) milk stayed back with the fat, hut the power to kill bncterla remained In Ihe clear fll Irate. This was p,vcd by adding germs to the filtrate, which destroyed llieiiK |