Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-12 | Page 11 | How Egyptology Has Affected Health

HOW EGYPTOLOGY HAS AFFECTED HEALTH Chicago o May Ia 12 versus Health was wn the title of ot n a mono monograph monograph graph received at nt the tho headquarters of ot the tho tuberculosis ls In of ot Chicago yesterday e In which It was alleged that the tho great spread of tuberculosis t ls In Europe and amid America In the time last ton years found its It causation In the time dis Internment Interment and anti broadcast over 00 time the land band of ot tho the mummies which had reposed r HO so long In tho the tombs to of the tho The Tho monograph W was H written by II Dr one of the lecturer lecturers at nl 1 In ht Parma who ho was van 1111 an nn In Interested visitor vl at tim tho recent tuberculosis louls losis exhibit In lit tubs this city That tho thu disinterred mummies nl III started the th spread of the tho tuberculosis germs Kerms In III Egypt can calm ell II not be bo doubted says nays Ur Dr In ht his monograph monor ph Thoro Thera Io are more moro tuberculosis germs In inthe tho the almost most Impalpable dust around u 11 mummy mammy case than In Ut many m irony cuspidors cu of o effluvia These germs lave for thousands ot of years year ns min linn lies easily boon and tho the exhumation of tho the bodies hodl tho the well preserved ones caused an min eph N I demote of consumption among n the tho l workmen and scholars who fil rat ex Pained the tho cases it IM is also aleo well known that time the keepers of tho the mummy cases rases ca 11 have hato been boon subject ct to tu the lime The start of ot tuberculosis 11 In III Franco In a Il serious sense Hell O may inny ho bo traced Irac 11 to the tho great Importation of ot mummies nail and mummy cases at tho the limo of ot the till Na Napoleonic Il Invasion In of ot Egypt wul this Mart I II rt gave tho the Its It first great In III 11 Pl whence It has ha spread all nil over olor the western world loud Dead bodies hod les may not nOI to tho thin germs but dead bodies bodles are undoubted ly iy I a n favorite lodging place fut for mho tho tu tt bacilli Tho The bacilli front from the tae mummies arc alo undoubtedly of ot grout great age and amid It U has hAIl been shown by 11 experiments In III Paris that these aged bacilli are arc moro morn deadly than Obtained 11 from the HIP sputum of 1110 persons who are 10 In lit