STATE DAIKY ASSOCIATIOlsr. 493 



1. Deep well water for drinking purposes; say, 250 feet deep. 



2. Rainwater for drinking purposes; a one-bundred-barrel cistern, with 

 a thirty-barrel cistern close by, with a filter between; the water to be first 

 conducted into the thirty-barrel cistern. 



3. Boiled and cooled water for drinking purposes. Drinking purposes 

 must include the washing and rinsing of all eating and drinking vessels 

 and utensils. 



There is an Indiana town with a fine flow of fresh artesian water; 

 but they do not condemn and fill up the wells of the town. The water of 

 these wells has large amounts of salts in it, which give it an agreeable 

 taste. These salts come from the surface drainage of stables, sinks, etc. 

 People like the water and will drink it and take the risks as long as they 

 may. Health in this respect would be so much cheaper than disease, not 

 to count the trouble and pain of disease, that it is strange we do not have 

 it. Munich is a great city that does not have typhoid fever— has to make 

 an excursion with its students of medicine to some other town for a study 

 of its symptoms. We can have it so here whenever we will. 



I have shown above that practice on animals is absolutely necessai-y 

 for the conquest of disease. It is not always adequate. Practice on men 

 becomes necessary. Every little while we hear of heroic souls who put 

 their lives in jeopardy for this purpose. Why should we not give this 

 option to criminals awaiting capital punishment? Suppose we have found 

 a remedy for some deadly disease when some animal has it; we can never 

 know that it will cure men until we try it. Shall we try it on your sick 

 child? This is what we have hitherto been obliged to do. We have per- 

 haps not yet learned all from the Greeks that we can. When Leonidas 

 and his men were about to perish at Thermopylae, two of the Spartans 

 were sick. One of them commanded his servants to carry him to the 

 front where he could die in accordance with his country's decrees, al- 

 though he had not strength to lift a spear. The other, Aristidemus, did 

 not do this, and unfortunately for him he recovered. He asked of the 

 Greeks the post of greatest danger in the assault against Mardonius at 

 Plataea, in order that he might lay down his life, no longer useiul to him- 

 self or his fellows, in his comitry's service. His life had been a failure; 

 he did not want his death to be. The tubercle or the typhoid bacillus is 

 a foe more deadly to the people of Indiana than the Persian was to the 

 Greek. If a life can be found that we are going to waste, that has the 

 heroism of Aristidemus, ought not we to have the courage of the Greek 

 and let him have the place at the apex of the flying wedge against disease? 

 And should he return victor from such a charge we could and we would 

 award to him the punishment Socrates chose for himself— maintenance at 

 the Prytaneum. 



President: Professor Decker will talk to us about cheese— varieties, 

 subearth ducts, curing rooms, etc., illustrating Ms talk with lantern pic- 

 tures. 



