Show SNAKES TO PREVENT PLAGUE london professor urges the cation of serpents to kill flea bearing rats in i I 1 recent article on the plague professor bombon of the I 1 ondon school of tropical diseases dibean makes the curious sugg estloa that instead of trub trusting ting to 0 o cats ind dogs as animal assistants assi asgis stints tint in the war ar on rats wo we 6 should hould take a lesson from antiquity an and it iga igalo in mike make domestic pets of the tha big hiis the professor even enen goes so far as to hint tb the I serpent as in in object or of widespread ld spreAd respect foi tile the excellent cc ellent reison that it lille kille I 1 the ritt that brought tile the heas fleas tint thit infected men with more plagues than one this theoze involves the belief that tile the ancients ivin a lot ellout the nl ture cause ind transmission of dis ease that i as forgotten foi gotten and only rediscovered it hlll pro bahl not be accepted ba b art miny a ny but iii K bother ither true or not professor som bon whether bether seriously or not does make out quite a case for the fireside snake as a lat zat killer judicious selected its effic lenc bould bo be beyond question and it bould not like both cats and dogs doga its itself 11 provide the fatal flea mth conlen convenient lent shelter and pas tunge new ihrl orl times |