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Show GIRL IS POISONED BY HANDLING CARBONPAPER IS SO AFFLICTED THAT SHE MAY BE INVALID FOR LIFE. Physicians 'of Nevada, Her Home State, As Well as of California', Interested Inter-ested In Peculiar Case. Oakland, Cal.. March 3. Suffering agonies from the poison which 6he contracted from handling typewriter carbon paper, whllo she was a clerk in the Alameda hall of records, Miss Elizabeth N. Rowe is facing possible invalidism for life at her homo in Reno, Nev. For five months, the girl suffered the ravages of a disease which tho doctors were unable to diagnose. Finally, a doctor who had learned the nature of her work, declared that she was suffering from poisoning caused by handling carbon sheets. Dr. O. D Hamlin, chief surgeon of the County hospital, agrees with the Nevada specialist that the poieon can be communicated com-municated by the manifold paper u6od by typists. The ue verity of Miss Rowe's case makes It exceptionally Interesting, and at the next meeting of the Alameda Ala-meda County Medical association it will be discussed All of the physicians physi-cians who have heard of the case agree that users of tho manifold paper should bo very careful not to get tho coloring matter In the throat or eyo3. |