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Show Cold Germ is Found The long-sought germ which causes the common cold has been found at last, according to the ;laim of Dr. PfeifTer of the Mary-, land University School of Medicine, Medi-cine, who has been on the trail of the elusive pest for seven years. What is more important, if it proves true, is that he has developed devel-oped a vaccine which destroys the germ and thus cures the cold in :hort order. Dr. Pfeiffer'e method meth-od will be further tested by physicians phys-icians of Johns Hopkins, and the re suits are awaited with interest. The importance cf such a discover,' dis-cover,' can be understood by everyone, every-one, because few persons are exempt ex-empt from the discomforts an often serious consequences which arise from merely "catching cold." It is estimated that the value of time lost lrom work in American industry on account of common colds is not less than two billicn dollars a year-. So, if Dr. PfeifTer has really found a scientific method of preventing pre-venting this suffering and wast?, he will be entitled to high ranx among the benefactors of mankind. |