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11. The general conclusion to be reached as the result of 

 these experiments is contrary to the current medical teaching, 

 and is to the effect that the drinking of a large amount of 

 water by normal individuals, with meals, was attended by many 

 desirable and by no undesirable features. 



Q. I. Simpson presented the following paper : 



BIOLOGY AND OTHER SCIENCES AS APPLIED BY A 



BREEDER. 



About the time when Dr. Burrill was teaching all the sciences 

 at this university, a professor of Natural Science, my father, 

 was leading a class of six, all the product of his own loin. 

 He taught causality for all nature's phenomena, the immuta- 

 bility of law and universal kinship. Hence the application of 

 science to our life work. 



Two centuries of nursing, pampering and inbreeding of the 

 English thorobred had brought the foals to almost the delicacy 

 of Homo, and the country "boss" doctor and our own experi- 

 ence could not cure their many baby ailments. But "kinship" 

 brought the village physican, and our losses were then at an 

 end. The Government, after many researches concerning hog 

 cholera, had discovered an impractical form of immunization, 

 and had put out a drug fonnula for cure and prevention that 

 was as useless as a drug cure and preventive for small pox. 

 We were lost and feared we must lay aside the most profitable 

 money maker of the farm!. But we read how a physician in 

 Georgia had lovVered the death rate in typhoid by abstinence 

 from all diet. We had seen the bacteria of typhoid and of 

 cholera in a Government laboratory, and noted that they were 

 in appearance alike. Dissection of our swine showed that they 

 were diseased as described for typhoid. The intestines were 

 weakened by numerous little boils, so that a little pull or pressure 

 would produce a hole wfhich allowed foods to escape into the 

 abdominal cavity. Even the pulling of the lateral and longi- 

 tudinal muscles which causes peristaltic action was sufficient to 

 tear these tissues. Then we fasted all cholera swine and the 



