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Show xttngor from Musical Instruments. A French military surgeon has been ! making researches on wind instruments which had been used by phthisical bandsmen, and warns musicians of the importance of disinfection. He recommends recom-mends that instruments should be filled with a 5 per cent, solution of carbolic acid, or, in the case of metallic instruments, instru-ments, that they should be dipped into . boiling water. , These precautions are of the utmost importance when phthisical persons have used the instruments; for it was found in such cases that liquids used to wash them out presented a viru-lerce viru-lerce similar to that of a pure culture of tuberculosis. Fortunately, the danger is small as long as the interior is thoroughly moist, which of course it usually is; but when an instrument has been lying by for ome time, so that the interior has be- come dry, there is real danger of air j containing dried germs of the disease i being drawn into the lungs of the person ' who next plays upon it. New York : Ledger. . ' |