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Telegraphic Paralysis

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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Telegraph clerks will lioar witl lüarui of telegraphio purulysis, a new malady I rèported liy a French pliysician to tho : Academie des Scieiices. Au employé, twhohad been engaged in a telegraph j office i'or niue .yeara, found that hecould not forui oleariy tho letters U, repreaeatod by tui) doU and a atroka ; I, by two and S, liy tliri'c dofc. On trying t-i tiace the lettera fiis hand bucarao stiff and onur.peJ. Hè then endeavored to uso his tiininb iilnue, and this uccee led for two yeais, wlicn liis thuuib w&ssimilarly attacked, and he subseqúenM J triéd the fust iiiid seQOsd lingers, but in two months thes( weW idso paailyzed. Finally He had ï-eeouiKc to the wrist, whioli abo shoriüy beeame disabíéd. lf he foïoed himseli to use; lús hánd, both hand and arm shook violently, and j ebrai exoitement onsued. It appears that i thití disorder ia vory oorumon ainong telegraph olerka. A CüRious cohK-ideiu'e was that whiqh happened to two brotlieiB, commai of ships sailing in opponite diroctions, who reoently met and spoke emh other in rough weather ofï Cape Horn.

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Old News
Michigan Argus