Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — Boil New Shaving Brush. [ARTICLE]

Boil New Shaving Brush.

When you buy a shaving brush, boil it, thoroughly before using it or leave it for four hours in a 10 per cent dilution of formaldehyde liquor at 110 degrees F. Either of these methods will protect you from anthrax. Before the war there was little danger of anthrax from-the shaving brush, as almost all of these were made from hair that had been thoroughly disinfected in France or Germany; but after 1914 the hair came direct from Russia and China via the Pacific ocean, and twenty cases of anthrax have been traced directly to this source. As 64 per cent of anthrax cases are fatal it behooves us to be extra careful, in spite of the fact that human susceptibility is low —how low is indicated by the fact that only case is known to have developed from a lot of 10,000 infected brushes.