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A French girl had a well-defined case of diphtheria without any apparent source of infection. She had been confined to her bed by another malady, and none of her visitors could be held responsible. Dr. H Horet made inquiries, and found that she had. inherited some furniture from a cousin, a priest in a neighboring province, and that he had had diphtheria some months before he died. Another case was the doctor's own daughter; in this case he traced the disease to a bookcase he had bought from the widow of another doctor, who had died from diphtheria caught from one of his patients. But the strangest case was that of a child, whose only chance of infection seemed to be some magazines, forty years old, which had been bought to amuse her.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 28 August 1912, Page 2
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135TENACIOUS GERMS. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 28 August 1912, Page 2
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