As Anna Dean Dulaney, bacteriologist at the University of Missouri, crossed the University campus recently she found a young woman's vanity case. What she did with it she told last week in Hygeia, Health Magazine: "Somewhat more curious than scrupulous, I opened it, and there lay the usual powder puff. No longer could I repress my bacteriologic instincts, and I carried the little puff to the laboratory, where I made a count of the bacteria attached to it. ...
"I cut the small puff into four equal parts, placed one part in a...
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