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Show Coniimpt.lno Spread Ctalf fly by Hast, Yor'x Herald. Iiiiipupor recently read in the New Jet-ev Medical soficty. by Dr. Edgar Hidden of Newark, on the potential lac-tors lac-tors in the spread of tuberculosis, one v ei v important fact seems to be established. estab-lished. The Mrdicul llcrord of this city reports re-ports Dr. lloldeti ns holding that, of the various methods by which tuberculosis can be contracted e.g., by inoculation, by inuestiou and by inheritance the most important of these is "inhalation of tho bacillus with dried particles floating iu the air." It is true that health v persons may be exposed in consumptive con-sumptive winds and not contract the disease, unless .something serious arises to reduce their vitality and vigor. But the nuihor of the paper cited some facts which ho thought conclusion evidence of the propagation of the disease by inhalation. in-halation. The dust particles swariiing in all .sivept and dry streets, in crowded theaters and iu large. as.Mubiages of people inii-t be a jirolific source of com-nninietitiiig com-nninietitiiig the inieclion of tuberculosis. 'Tho danger and death lurking in dust wherever it ha been exposed to tho contamination of disease genus, cannot, perhaps, be, too much emphasized. . |