Tobacco Smoke Kills Microbes

M. Tassinari, a Parisian scientist, has been experimenting with the smoke of tobáceo and flnds it to be one of the most perfect germicides and disinfectants ever used. In proving his claims smoko from a cigar was blown across a strip of linen which had been dipped in a fluid containing thousands of virulent microbes. When the cigar was flnished the linen was immediately placed in a bowl of beef broth, where common microbes are expected to breed and multiply very rapidly. To the surprise of the doubters it was I found that the smoke had had the effect of delaying the growth of the organisms, that the majority of them were dead, and that those whlch managed to live never fully developed.