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Show Rata Increase at Front. PARIS. Feb. 17. Rats are quite as numerous nu-merous cn the French front as during the second winter campaign. They multiply mul-tiply fnster than the number of doq-s sent to the trenches to fight them and are now. it Is reported, menacing the armv with an epidemic of jaundice. The reason rea-son for the prevalence of this disease at the front was a mystery until a doctor h his researches discovered that the rat rlrries in its organism, without apparent harm to Itself, a microbe called the spiro-chaete, spiro-chaete, having the form of a microscop-Y microscop-Y Jc serpent, which, communicated to a hu- ,' man being, develops Jaundice. A. counteracting coun-teracting serum Is being sought. |