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Show Pneumonia Germs in Water. In the singular experience reported report-ed to a Paris medical society by Drs. Chauffard and Widal, a man and his wife were taken with pneumonia within with-in a few hours of each other, and the disease ran an almost Identical course in each case. The illness began on a day In June following one on which they drank much cold water from a well. One could not have taken the disease from the other, as is usual in family epidemics, and common unfavorable un-favorable surroundings could hardly have had a simultaneous effect. That pneumonia germs .from the well water wa-ter inoculated the patients seemed to be the only conclusion possible. |