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Show Saves a Girls Life WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. It Wcis se-rum se-rum prepared by veterinary scientists of the bureau of animal industry for experimental purposes in (renting for age poisoning of horses that saved th life of Lena Delbaue. after the other six members of her family had died from eating poisonous olives in New Yoric recently, according to the department depart-ment of agriculture. The serum was made from the blood of a sheep that had been immunized against bacillus bolulinus poisoning. In Investigating forage poisoning of homes (he bureau of animal industry made extensive experiments with so- ruvus and discovered there wero two strains of bacillus botulinus They look alike and the poisons they create cre-ate produce tho same effect, biu immunization im-munization agliinst one docs not afford immunization against the other. The two strains are commonly known by the government investigators tis "the olive strain" and "the cheese strain. " Three Instances of olive poisoning, om in Michigan, one in Ohio and the third in Montana, were all caused by "the olive strain." The veterinarians, therefore, there-fore, were reasonably certain that the serum affording protection against the poi?on generated by "the olive strain" would be effective in tho New York eases, and it proved to be in ths one caoo-where could be given a fair triai. |