Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14
Drawings by M. L. Blumenthal

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TVHAT their customers do -
not contract all the dis q
eases BARRIERS distribute
so impartially means nothing ~
except perhaps that Nature is
kind, and humanity is tough.
We do not all get tuberculosis
or dphtheria; yet all 4f - Il
more or less frequently exposed Ii H. II
to both. The with bar
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ber-spread diseases. Some few =
tough-hided individuals seem to =,
be thoroughly immune. Then,
like a lamb to the slaughter, the
very next victim gets dandruf
or the itch, or crop of boils.
There is clear-cut line of de-
{ marcation between Cleanliness"
and surgical cleanliness One
is the variety we get at most -A N q
barber shops; the other is the
variety we fatuousy think
getting.
Modern science has recently
proved-by the cold logic of the
microscope, the test tube, and
that animal experimentation to which humanity owes
so much of its biological knowledge-that BARRIERS
well meaning but sadly mistaken individuals; that the
claim sanitary and the word 3sterize" often
abused by them than by any other profession also
that the fault is with the doctors who furnished them
with little of their plentiful supply of ignorance.
The BARRIERS believed that when they put
white suit, used clean towel for each patron dipped
their into aantiseptic" solution, and used
alum incorporated in gycerin and boric acid after de-
CAPTIVATING pimple doctors call it by the slightly
elegant term 4papule"), they sanitary" This
is where the doctors led the BARRIERS astray for
the they have provided the BARRIERS for treating
wounds sustained in shaving Git is surgical operation
with many BARRIERS, customers will testify
is itself of grave danger. The harmless looking
alum stick has been tried by science and found guilty
1t was the custom-and is yet, in many thousands of
shops-for the barber who has taken away a small
piece of the hide along with the hair reach for the
trusty antseptic stick, dip it into little water, and
apply the denuded bleeding surface This usually
stopped hemorrhage. Sometimes the barber washed it
off before he triumphantly laid it back the Shelf
oftener not. For why wash antiseptic? Why carry
Goals to Newcastle? The doctor told him that the magic
as check the bleeding and he acted upon the suggestion
in perfect good faith. 3Thers reason why theirs
but to do and" but we know better now
THE French and German pathologists and bacteriolo
gists with the scientific inquistveness that
amounts to almost passion have been looking into
the of certain epdecs of skin diseases that
widespread in those countries few years ago. One of
the most pernciousy active of these investigators
DR.. Reminger of Paris His Investigations eventually
brought him into the barber shops, and in moment of
inspiration he appropriated of these innocent looking
alum sticks which had been in for only two months
really short time for antseptic to remain anti
septic.
DR.. Remlinger hurried over to his laboratory with
the alum stick, which he immersed in bath of boiled
sterile water (water free from germs, then soaked it
again in second bath of sterile water. Next, with his
trusty microscope, he proceeded to look for germs in
these two waters The result startling He nearly
fell from his chair when
he fixed hiS tn he