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replied that a pound of butter was worth more than a pound of Cod 

 Liver Oil. 



MR. SEEDS: Doctor, you spoke about the old fashioned tiro- 

 place. I would like to know if you have any object ions to taking 

 cold air from the outside, and putting it through a heater and forc- 

 ing it up through the house. 



DR. ROTHROCK: There is no occasion at all to do that. Why 

 do they make the people in the Adirondacks sleep out with the 

 thermometer twenty-five or thirty degrees below zero? Is there 

 any virtue iu cold? No, there is not. It is to make them get all 

 the fresh air they can get. You can't live comfortably if your tem- 

 perature falls a little below the normal. Such is the force of habit. 

 The first effects of food are to create animal heat and if you live 

 in a temperature twenty-five or thirty degrees below zero, an enoi 

 mous quantity of that food has to go just to keep you warm. 



In our little cabins, only ten feet square, a bunk is built on this 

 side (indicating) aud there are two windows, one here (indicating) 

 and the other at the other side. A little stove is right at this 

 window (indicating), when they put a lire in that stove on a cold 

 winter night, it makes that room so hot they have simply got to open 

 the window's and doors so that it lets the air sweep right through 

 that cabin and when the man gets well enough he is made one of our 

 forest wardens, out in all kinds of weather, fighting fire and doing 

 all the work of the State on these forest reservations. 



A Member: Doctor, is any more legislation needed to carry out 

 the idea of this work? 



DR. ROTHROCK: I think legislation will be needed. I think 

 we have got to take care of these people. I think that the public 

 sentiment, as it has been expressed, is very largely in our favor, and 

 I think that the time is coming when these reservations will be 

 largely used, and I believe that the finances of the State will be 

 sufficient and will be provided to carry on the work. 



BURGESS PENNYPACKER: Does the question of heredity have 

 anything to do with the question of consumption? 



DR. ROTHROCK: I think it doee. I can't explain why, but 1 

 know that there are a certain number of children in some families 

 who, one after another, when they get to about thirty years of age, 

 will die of consumption. The question is, whether we cannot, by 

 living in the open air, overcome the hereditary tendency. 



BURGESS PENNYPACKER: I think you can, because my mother 

 died with tuberculosis at fiftv-four and I believe I do not exhibit 



