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PHILADELPHIA, PA., FEBRUARY, 1909. 



It not infrequently takes a hundred years for humanity to 

 fully recognize the claims of an individual to its homage, and 

 it may take many years to have scientific facts made useful. 

 This latter is illustrated in regard to the Bacillus tuberculosis, 

 the cause of consumption, which has been known for consider- 

 ably over a quarter of a century. 



At the present time people are buying Red Cross Stamps to 

 aid the so-called White Plague movement and soon will be ex- 

 pectorating on the sidewalk for the benefit of hungry house- 

 flies. 



Meat, fruit and vegetables are exposed for sale on the street 

 and in the appropriate season are resorted to by this disgusting 

 manure-bred insect, the house-fly, in large numbers. Each 

 morning the fruit is brushed with a feather duster. The object 

 of this is to remove street dirt composed largely of dessicated 

 horse-manure, dried sputum, fly-specks and other interesting 

 matter. What escapes the duster goes into the stomach of the 

 consumer. 



We spend thousands of dollars to bring a tuberculosis exhibit 

 to town containing many things supposed to cure and in many 

 large cities there is not even an elementary attempt at preven- 

 tion. 



We were recently asked why it is that entomologists were 

 looked down upon by mammalogists, ornithologists and other 

 naturalists, and our reply was that if the latter classes were 

 guilty of this it is due to their pitiable ignorance. To one 



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