Show now how consumption la is communicated professor ruble of bonn in a recent paper on oil consumption of the lungs states that in his opinion the most frequent manner mander of contracting this malady is from a diseased person through the sputa also through the glands ex from the skin or any way in which tho the poison may appear on the surface and he be transported by means of pocket handkerchiefs washing etc the fait fact that the attendants in hospitals who have the care of tives are seldom attacked with the disease convicer conneen the writer that it is not the air through which the germs are carried but it 16 is communicated in another mode in tact fact the way in which the members of the family kiss end and fondle the patient and handle liis his linen from one member of the family the special germ which excites the disease goes to another instances can frequently be found on inquiry where the parents transmit the disease to their children in such cases the family physician should put in his word of warning boston herald |