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life-destroyers, discoveries of the devil or his agents — patent medi- 

 cines. 



Another disease which requires statistical attention is tubercular 

 consumption. It kills more people in ten years than any invasive 

 disease of the present day is likely to do. Our climate has been 

 made to play a much too important part among the causes of this 

 disease. Climate, employment, etc., all play the sufficient or pro- 

 ducing causes, but very seldom the primary cause. The primary 

 cause is to be sought in the senseless inbreeding of weak lungs from 

 generation to generation among human beings, until at present the 

 very irritation of normal breathing is often sufficient to send a child 

 into an early grave from tubercular consumption. The medical 

 profession acknowledge the influences of our climate. Perhaps they 

 can see the other also. But truth is ever unpleasant ; and to tell 

 parents that their children dare not marry at all, or dare not inter- 

 marry — to tell young lovers they dare not marry, because they 

 would condemn their children to an early grave — would seriously 

 interfere with one's yearly income. Who of the medical profession- 

 stands up as a man of truth and proclaims to the world that con- 

 sumptives dare not many, or that children of families with such 

 tendencies must not intermarry ? We must out-breed this tendency 

 to weak lungs by sensible and exact marriage, or we shall find still 

 more reason to condemn our climate than we now have. "Why do 

 these men study medicine? It is certainly not to think, not to 

 speak, the truth. To make a living, regardless of the good of hu- 

 manity. Medical practice has fallen to a business in this country, 

 instead of being conducted as a science. Can these men think ? 

 Can they observe what every breeder of fine cattle has long since 

 known ? I scarcely believe it. Blind ! blind ! Education is a 

 myth ! Ignorance only exists ! To think, the evidence of true 

 education seems to be the thing we must seek after. "We may find 

 it among the lost arts. Until then, humanity will go on damning 

 its children, for a longer or shorter time, to a living hell of misery 

 and pain. There is but one cure for consumption (quacks to the 

 contrary) : Consumptives, descendants of consumptive families, dare 

 not intermarry. 



Syphilis is a disease of similar character. It can scarcely be 

 rooted out from an organism when once its terrible germs have 

 gained access. Does the medical profession do its duty in this 

 regard ? Does it tell young but unfortunate patients that they dare 

 not marry ? " Marry, doctor ? " " Oh, yes." " Perfectly cured % " 

 " Oh, yes." But the child produced not only brands the medical 



