THE PERILOUS HAND SHAKE.
I: : ; '.. ■" ' " ■», ■i, ,;' ■ The doctors aire so fond of finding new scares, of discovering hidden dangers in everything, that there will be a feeling of relief when one of the medical papers flashes upon us the grave dangers of being alive. For .-that; must'be. the climax. --The last horror is. the peril, of shaking hands. Every time you shake hands' you exchange a triife . of 80,000 microbes with' your friends. ' It is not easy to feel. a very* burning interest in the question whether the 80,000 are your own. or. your friend's. You have to' have them anyway, yTherefore::we- ; do not expect j to see, the handshake supplanted "By the suggested aseptic substitute .-"Temenah '•' which consists in placing the right hand to the heart, the'lips, , and the' head. This is not.easy. to do with speed and grace, arid in practice, it will 'be found thait the nose often intervenes. ...•••■■■•,-.'-- ■••-.. ■ ;;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)
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152THE PERILOUS HAND SHAKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)
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