Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1915 — DISCOVER MAY MEAN END OF TYPHOID AND CHOLERA [ARTICLE]

DISCOVER MAY MEAN END OF TYPHOID AND CHOLERA

German Scientists Find Animal Charcoal Kills Bacteria of Diseases In Intestines. Washington, Oct. 27.—Behind the cutrain of war German science has made discoveries in medicine in the benefits of which the civilized world will share. It has been learned by practical experiments that animal charcoal, which has been used mainly to remove coloring matter from chemical solutions, will absort and remove not only poisons from the intestinal canal, but the bacteria of typhoid fever and cholera. The poisons can be neutralized within a very short time, and all poisonous substances that arise in the alimentary canal can be removed by absorption. The action of the animal charcoal extends to the bacteria themselves, which is mechanically absorbs and destroys. Clerks and baggagemen employed by the Michigan Central in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana were called out on strike last night to enfroce a demand that officers of the road meet with a committee representing the clerks to discuss alleged grievances. John Saunders and his five children are suffering from bullet wounds, and Samuel Ellison, a coal miner, is in jail at Rockville, charged with the shooting following an argument over the boundary of adjoining lands.