Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — WILL PREVENT TYPHOID FEVER. [ARTICLE]

WILL PREVENT TYPHOID FEVER.

Prof. Novy of Ann Arbor Discovers a Wonderful Antiseptic. Prof. F. G. Novy of the University of Michigan has discovered a new disinfectant, which, it is asserted, will prevent all intestinal diseases £ich as Asiatic cholera, typhoid fever and dysentery. "Bentozone” is the name of the new antiseptic, which its discoverer and others who have seen it tested declare will revolutionize the treatment of certain diseases. An absolute intestinal disinfectant and antiseptic is the way the new-found preparation is described, and its effects upon five students who submitted to seven days’ experimentation have been truly wonderful. The students offered themselves as “subjects” upon whom the experiments might be made. After a week of constant analysis, during which they had nothing to eat and only sterilized milk to drink, the announcement is made unofficially that success attended the trials and a new weapon is given man to combat diseases. Dr. Novy’s “benzozone,” it is asserted, does what the healthy system does. It prevents the bodily poisons from developing disease. In time of susceptibility to these diseases it is a substitute for the bodily action and removes the cause of diseases.