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Show pipe Gives Cadet Typhoia. Midshipman SYiiith. who was stricken strick-en with typhoid fever on the Indiana ' at Plvmouth, England, contracted the' , disease, it is said, from smoking a briar used nearly a year ago by his j roommate at Annapolis who had a bad case of tvphold. This theory is taken as proof that concentrated nicotine cannot destroy a typhoid germ. The-medical The-medical department of the navy will examine into the theory with the result re-sult that midshipmen of the future may confine themselves to their own pipes. |