The start of tuberculosis in France in a serious sense may be
traced to the great importance of mummies and mummy-cases at the
time of the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, and this start gave
the disease its first great foothold in Europe, whence it has
spread all over the Eastern world and throughout the Western
hemisphere as well. Dead bodies preserved in the manner peculiar
to the Egyptians of the time of the Pharaohs are undoubtedly
favorite lodging-places for the tubercular bacilli. (Text.)
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