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the baby does not get its natural food ; they begin to feed it on baby foods, 

 on cow's milk that has not been properly cleaned, selected under clean 

 conditions, and has fragments of fertilizer in it, gleanings from the barnyard; 

 in other words, it has manure germs growing in it, and his alimentary canal 

 gets filled up with those wild manure germs. The cow has been grazing 

 all about, and the farmer has thrown out filth on his land; the cow eats the 

 grass down close to the earth and gets her alimentary canal filled up with 

 wild germs of all sorts; and there is the manure that gets into the milk; it 

 carries to the child all these wild germs in great variety. Prof. Roger, of 

 Paris, has found 161 different kinds of germs, and half of them poison- 

 forming germs that will kill cats, mice and rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs, 

 and kill babies as well. There is no doubt that half the babies who die are 

 killed by wrong feeding, are poisoned by their food; and that is the great 

 reason for the shortening of life through the dying off of half the human 

 family. In civilized lands half the people die before seven years of age, 

 and it is almost entirely because of this wrong feeding. Down in Mexico 

 it is a great deal worse, for they are so awfully ignorant down there the 

 average length of life is only seventeen years in that great country, ten or 

 twelve million people; and in this country it is only forty years. It ought 

 to be 140. There is no reason in the world why it should not be; 125 or 130 

 ought to be the ordinary length of life; nobody ought to think of dying at 

 less than a hundred years, unless by accident; and very few people do die 

 a natural death. An eminent French physiologist says: ''Man does not 

 die; he kills himself." That is true in the great majority of cases. Most of 

 the babies are killed by wrong feeding. 



Well, now, as I said before, here are these two kinds of germs, the friendly 

 and unfriendly. The friendly germs live on sugar. That is why sugar 

 is put in the milk for the infant; that is what milk sugar is for, one thing, 

 is to feed those friendly germs and keep them growing. Acids are formed 

 from the sugar. 



The unfriendly germs do not live on sugar at all; they do not want any 

 sugar. But they live on such substances as the lean substance of meat, 

 lean meat, the white of eggs, and even undigested curds of milk will feed 

 these germs. These are the germs that cause decay. You know the 

 difference between the apple that is rotten, and a dead rat, for instance, 

 or a dead pig, or a dead cat. You know how it smells; what a loathsome 

 condition it is in. Here is a rotten apple; it is not pleasant, but still it is 

 not so horribly offensive as a dead rat; it is a very, very different thing. 

 The rotten apple has the friendly germs growing in it; it is sour, etc. But 

 the dead rat has these unfriendly germs I am telling about. These unfriendly 

 germs are always found in meat. If you take a piece of meat and put it 

 away, it undergoes decomposition. Here is a piece of meat and a pan of 

 milk; put them away side by side in a warm place; after a few days the meat 

 will be very sour, and you can hardly describe what it will be; it is certainly 

 very loathsome and unpleasant, horribly so. If you put that beefsteak 

 in a pan of milk, the beefsteak will not decay, it will not become putrescent, 

 I have up at the sanitarium some beefsteak that has been in a pan of milk 

 three months, and it is perfectly sweet yet. The milk is sour; the acid that 

 has formed in the milk is a preservative ; it is a germicide, it is a disinfectant, 

 an antiseptic. The same is true of fruit juices; they undergo fermentation 

 and produce these acids, which are protective. 



So if a man is going to eat beefsteak, it is important he should eat plenty 

 of fruit to disinfect his beefsteak. 

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