Medicine: Bacillus Acidophilus

Some years ago the Bulgarian scientist, Mechnikov, discovered a bacillus friendly to man, called it the Bacillus Bulgaricus, because it frequented the sour milk of Bulgaria. Recently Prof. Leo F. Rettger of Yale announced that he had experimented with an allied form of the Bacillus Acidophilus and demonstrated that, induced to breed in great quantities, it expells all harmful bacteria by its harmless self. Thus, puckering their mouths to imbibe the acidated lacteal fluid of bovines, young people, old people, sexa-and even octogenarians may continue to "ripe and ripe." Prof. Rettger also hinted that with these bacilli would be developed a typhoid cure.

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