| Show t U ft h n iw dait euf ve referred adrae lerao kance a ly revival rf the opinion that tobacco is a disinfectant this ahe old impression which title men after buina decided to be entirely false cut ahn is an ape of revivals anil science is beginning to and that it hai sometimes spoken in haste 1 hn to be the case with the about the possession hy tobacco amako of dis infecting iii wera there in a basis of beien bicic fact which tends to bear out abat claim some scientific and bournak bavo lately pub lieland in of some expert by mr V Tas inari which w ip devised in order to put the question to a further and decisive frum a cigar or cigar rectie waa drawn ver a piece of linen which had been dipped into a flu n containing number of aixa when tho cigar was finished the linen aa at once placed in a in which such genus could breul and multiply the experiment was reea rebated ted aith a number of micro organism in eluding those of cholera anthrax and pneumonia and of course check esperi menta in which smoking was in every case the effect of the was greatly to delay hie growth of abe organisms and in some instances it waa entirely prevented it thus appears that tos bacco smoke u as fatal to the microscopic forms of life aa it is to the email insect which invest our greenhouse plants the author proposes to follow up big alons in abe hope of isolating that part of smoke to which its germi bidal property u due and biblo adding a new disinfectant to the long list of those we have |
