Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Medicine: Air Germicide
A powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor—propylene glycol—to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal.
The idea of sterilizing the air is not new —London's great fire of 1666, for example, was touched off by the countless fires which...
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