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enterprisiug producers. The scientist should tell the truth, care- 

 fully iind calmly, aud in the correct perspective, with needed ex- 

 planations and qualifications. The producer ought to have a 

 receptive mind, eager to learn, aud anxious to take every reason- 

 able precaution to produce a harmless product. The lives of weak 

 infants or debilitated invalids may be in his keeping. He should 

 realize the full extent of his responsibility. 



A gentleman once said to me that he considered the charges 

 about the possible dangers from milk as wholly false, aud a scare 

 got up by selfish men for selfish purposes. My reply was an illus- 

 tration from my own family. One member, perfectly healthy in 

 every way, so far as could be ascertained, drank milk freely and 

 with impunity, without thought or care of the result. Another, in 

 feeble health, the object of much solicitude, was not allowed to 

 drink milk until it had been carefully boiled, to kill any possible 

 germs of tuberculo.sis. 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 

 these from the system, aud no ill effects would result. But in the 

 case of debilitated, sickly or weak persons, the conditions are dif- 

 ferent, 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 in the panic 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 realizing the truth. As the 

 world advances and popular intelligence increases, more aud 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 

 consumer and producer. 



