No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 183 



DR. ROTHEOCK: I would like to see the old fashioned fire-place 

 that our fathers used to have, big enough to put a six foot stick of 

 wood in, in every farmhouse in the land. 



A Member: Doctor, do you consider that there is any virtue in cold; 

 a cold temperature? 



DR. ROTHROCK: No, I do not. I might tell you of a little in- 

 cident. When the temperature was fourteen degrees below zero, I 

 met a party of the inmates of my camp going out to have a picnic on 

 the top of the mountain and they went out and stayed there all day, 

 and they came back at night with their tongues out, and nobody was 

 hurt by it, and one of the persons who was in that party was a very 

 delicate lady, who afterwards came to West Chester and took a 

 course of instruction and training as a nurse. 



I want to say here that I had four representatives there from 

 a family of thirteen children, the father having died with consump- 

 tion and the mother with cancer. Eight out of these thirteen chil 

 dren were dead with consumption; one, a man, apparently didn't 

 have it; never showed any signs of it; but four members of that 

 family were in my camp and every one of them have gone away 

 cured, and they have taken no medicine. They have eaten poultry 

 instead of taking medicine; ate raw eggs, drank milk and breathed 

 the fresh air. I believe in their taking this kind of food; all they 

 can hold of it. 



Now I am a doctor myself, and I want to say here, that I believe 

 I express the sentiments of the best of our medical profession to-day, 

 w r hen I say that no case of consumption ever was cured by drugs. 

 There are cases when medicine is best, but not for the cure of con- 

 sumption. A consumptive may have various other troubles, and 

 we may treat him for those and frequently do, and that is just where 

 the skill of a trained physician comes in, but I think the majority 

 of physicians have absolutely lost faith in drugs for the cure of 

 consumption. 



MR. RODGERS: Doctor, how do you prepare fresh eggs to make 

 them palatable? 



DR. ROTHROCK: I think the best way is to simply swallow tkeiii 

 as you do an oyster. Just take' them into your mouth and let gravity 

 do the rest. Of course, you can flavor your eggs with anythiner 

 you like, but we think that a patient who can take a fresh egg as 

 he takes an oyster, is one of our beet patients. Just break the e^ 

 into a tumbler, tip it up, and let gravity do the rest. 



A member inquired as to Cod Liver Oil, to which Dr. Rothrock 



