Show MICROBES ON STAMPS the collection as a source of danger having successfully disclosed the hygienic dangers adherent to the kiss the telephone receiver and the towel medical science has now turned its attention to the perils that beset the philatelists art according to dr unna I 1 nna says the science news a patient was recently attacked by a peculiar parasitic growth in in the beard on making a minute examination of some of the hairs the doctor i recognized the disease as pi piedra pic edrul dra which is chiefly met with ith in british columbia the doctors tors friend had never been in columbia Columbi 11 but he frequently received letters from correspondents there and being a collector of postage stamps he was in the habit of removing them from the letters in dr annas opinion the gum on the postage stamp is an excellent material for retaining any disease germs that it may receive from the application of the tongue and in removing stamps even when moistening is done with the sponge there is always a danger that the collectors fingers may ay receive and communicate the contamination tami nation |