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Show Consumption and the Telephone, Tho panic recently created on th subject of tho assumed danger lurk-Ing lurk-Ing In tho transmitter of the telephone Is not pieclsely now. It Is but tho development de-velopment of a fear which has caused misgiving for some years, as is pointed point-ed out by the Prills!. Medical Jour-nnl Jour-nnl On tho supposition, It says, that various germa of disease probably collect col-lect in the receiver and transmitter of tho instrument, at any rate In public telephone stations, some medical alarmists have thrown out suggestions lhat antiseptics, both In a dry state and In solution, should be applied for the safety of tho telephone user. The recent dictum goes one Hop further, inasmuch ns It Is now an established fact that tubcrcUi bacilli, the casual micro-organisms of consumption, havo been found-alive and In robust condition-In tho instrument. tt li Q l natural, In vlow of such a find, that a feeling of alarm wight aclze hold of ho more nervous-Current Litem-ture. |