Medicine: Vaccinated by Mouth

Vaccination against dysentery and typhoid fever by the mouth instead of by injection has been tried in Russia with favorable results, according to Dr. Shiemaskho, Soviet Commissar of Health. The vaccine was supplied by the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and Dr. Ludwik Rajehman, Medical Director of the League of Nations Health Committee, proposes to test the method experimentally and, if successful, to use it against epidemics in Eastern Europe.

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