Medicine: Chlorine

Some months ago, when two chemical warriors of the U. S. Chemical Warfare Service—Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder and Captain Harold P. Sawyer—reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from...