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carefully boiled, to kill any possible germs of tuberculosis. 

 After narrating the case, my sceptical critic replied that he 

 would have done the same thing in his own family, under 

 similar circumstances. In that admission he gave away his 

 whole case. Health is the natural condition of mankind, 

 and when nature is given fair play she will do much to 

 counteract any small lapses from obeying her laws. We 

 admit that a person in rugged health might under favorable 

 conditions take germs of tuberculosis into his system with 

 impunity, for the kindly functions of nature in the digestive 

 processes and elsewhere might eliminate the germs from the 

 system, and no ill effects would result. But in the case of 

 debilitated, sickly or weak persons, the conditions are differ- 

 ent, and danger may exist ; not in any emphatic way, to 

 cause alarm or panic, but enough to cause prudence and care. 

 Let an alarm of fire be given in a crowded theatre, and a 

 panic ensues ; usually the danger by the horrified people 

 crowding against and trampling upon one another is much 

 greater than the danger from fire. We must face the milk 

 question with every effort to avoid panic, but honestly realiz- 

 ing the truth. As the world advances and popular intelli- 

 gence increases, more and more care will be taken in the 

 milk supply, more and more confidence will be felt in it by 

 the consuming public, and, as a result, larger and larger 

 quantities will be consumed. Progress will help both con- 

 sumer and producer. 



