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NEW DISEASE DISCOVERED
CAIRO, April I. i.'r. Ibrahim, Dean o-il the Faculty .if Medicine in the Ivgyptian Funer'sil.y, unnoumes the discovery ol a disease al'lecting "the idle rich." The symptoms are fat-hags Ihe size of a pea under tin arm-pits. In ages above s') the disease is incurable, Dr. Ibrahim savs, ending in a painful death. 'lhe removal of the fat -ha,-; is useless, as others grow in their place. Pathologists have not discovered germs in the lags, and have urged that athletic games should not he dropped.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 12
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