How to Be Repulsive

Sometimes, in Southern California, the fleas get so bad that people can't enjoy the wonderful, dry weather. Casting about for a remedy, Santa Barbara's Dr. Howard L. Eder decided to dose his patients with thiamin chloride (vitamin BI)--a treatment which had proved successful in repelling mosquitoes.

To his amazement, he found that liberal dosing (internal, not external) with the vitamin made his patients--and even their dogs--repulsive to fleas. In six months, the fleas began to get interested again.

Dr. Eder was not sure why fleas will not bite the B1 people: "Apparently fleas, like birds, smell their food before they eat. . . ."

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