262 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Sept. 



intendent of Brookline Water-Works, has stated that 10 

 colonies per c.c. will render a water unfit to drink. 



From our experience it is certain that 10 colonies of 

 Synura per c.c, if they are in the right condition, will 

 cause a taste sure to be noticed by the consumers. 



Typhoid Fever. 



By ELMER LEE, A. M., M. D. 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 



Recognition of the value of cleanliness represents the 

 most practical discovery in treatment during the present 

 generation, and, at the same time it constitutes one of the 

 really great discoveries in the history of medicine. The 

 application of the principles of cleanliness more nearly 

 meets the requirements of a real advance in curative 

 medicine, than all the other propositions known to the 

 profession for the cure of disease. 



The symptoms of Typhoid Fever are too well-known 

 by all to need particular mention ; the question of burn- 

 ing interest is what to do to be saved. The disease is 

 produced by drinking contaminated water, and its seat 

 of development is situated in the intestinal canal. There 

 is a poison there which, if it could be removed before it 

 had become absorbed into the blood, life, and even health 

 would be spared. Allowed to remain, the poison is 

 drawn into the circulation, and very soon the whole 

 body feels the depressing effect. Even at this time, if 

 those remaining poisonous juices and germs which are 

 contained in the bowels were either neutralized by suit- 

 able remedies, or washed entirely away by a stream of 

 flowing water, the disease would be checked, the patient 

 spared, and health restored. 



The Typhoid fever patient receives as food, whatever 

 is simple, at regular intervals of four hours. Milk, 

 simple, natural milk, is nourishment of the highest im- 



