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Show TUBERCULOSIS f RON iiUPIfllES . v ; ' - Theory That Exhuming of Bodies in Egypt s Spreads Disease. " : " pmcoo.'EC.itaj.ii' Versus Health", was the title of a mon- . . ograph received at the headquarters of the Tuberculosis Institute of- Chicago yesterday. In which It was alleged that the great spread of tuberculosis in 'Europe 'Eu-rope and America In the last 100 years found Its causation in the disinterment and shipment broadcast over the land of the mummies which had reposed so loner in the tombs of the Pharaohs. The monograph was written by Dr. Rafaelle Sorgnac, one of the lecturers at the Sorbonne. In Paris, who was an Interested visitor at the recent tuberculosis tuber-culosis exhibit In this city. "That the disinterred mummies started start-ed the spread of the tuberculosis germs In Egypt cannot be doubted." says Dr. Sorgnac in bis monograph. "There ara more tuberculosis germs in the almost Impalpable dust around a mummy case than In many cuspidors of effluvia. . "These germs live for thousands of years, as has easily been proven, and the exhumation of the bodies, even the well preserved ones, caused an epidemic of consumption among .the workmen -and scholars who flrst exhumed the cases. It is also well known that the keepers of the mummy cases have been subject to the disease." , |