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fest. The meat eater takes more risks than 

 he imagines, for let him remember that the 

 ill effect from diseased meats are not in all 

 cases immediate and manifest as in the case 

 of the Trichina Spiralis. It would be well 

 perhaps if they were, for then the terrible 

 results would cause the meat eater to pause. 

 The " tape worm " is caused by a germ tak- 

 en with meat ( beef I believe ) ; and there 

 are many cumulative and chronic ills due to 

 impure and diseased meat. An apparent'y 

 healthly animal may harbor the germs or 

 parasites which work havoc in the human 

 organism. There are two distinct kinds of 

 impure and dangerous meat — the one kind 

 from healthy animals, containing the germs 

 whose natural habitat is the flesh or viscera 

 of that animal ; and the other from animals 

 which have positive disease, such as tuber- 

 culosis in bovines— a disease which may ex- 

 ist in the animal with little if any external 

 sign of its presence. And that this disease 

 ( which is equivalent to human "Consump- 

 tion " ) is transmitted from the cow to the 

 human both through the milk and the meat 

 is proved beyond a doubt. I repeat, let 

 these who must have meat see that it is 

 thoroughly cooked every time ; and let those 

 who buy their milk and know not where it 

 comes from or what is in it boil it before 

 using. 



The next point on which the editor is " not 

 sure that Mr. Pringle is correct " is he be- 

 lieves that " there are some cases, after a 

 person is sick, in which medicines may be 

 used to advantage. " Here again there is 

 really little difference of opinion, but my 

 article covered so much ground, touching so 

 many points, that I had necessarily to leave 

 some merely stated or implied without 

 argument or amplification. But this is a 

 matter of great importance, and calls for 

 further elucidation, especially as I differ 

 somewhat in these premises from all the 

 authorities I know of — the Drug Doctor and 

 the Anti Drug alike going to extremes, each 

 his own way — the one's Materia Medica con- 

 taining nothing much but drugs, the other's 

 no drugs at all. They are both wrong. 

 Each school of medicine has of necessity 

 the narrowness of Sectarianism. None are 

 independant and Cosmopolitan. The Eclec- 

 tic School professed to select the good and 

 rejsct the bad of all other systems, but even 

 Eclecticism soon degenerated into Section- 

 alism if not One-idea-ism. As for Orthodox 

 Allopathy it is something like Bourbonism, 



" never learns, and never forgets " ( to per- 

 secute all other schools as " quacks. " ) No 

 man encumbered with a diploma from any 

 school is quite a free man. It is well to 

 stand outside and above them all, looking at 

 them all with critical and impartial eye, 

 and bringing the tenets of each to the test of 

 reason, of fact, and of the latest verifications 

 of science. While the hygienic system of 

 medication stands at the head of all medical 

 systems I have no doubt that late improve- 

 ments ia chemistry and bacteriology render 

 necessary a re-consideration of some of its 

 positions. Without, however, going into 

 these matters here I shall merely endeavor to 

 straighten this point and make it clear be- 

 tween the editor and myself touching the 

 utility of drug medicines under certain cir- 

 cumstances. My position is that hygienic 

 treatment with natural agents is the best 

 <r(?a(»ieHi; and in all cases where it is avail- 

 able, and can be applied, it, and it alone, 

 should be employed ; but when hygienic 

 treatment is not possible, either through 

 ignorance of how to apply it or lack of 

 appliances, then in some instances ( not in 

 all ) drug treatment is admissible as the less 

 of two evils, and may save the patients's 

 life. Lit us take a case to illustrate this: 

 We will suppose an acute case of peritonitus 

 or infiamation of the bowels. The natural, 

 hygienic treatment, in general, would be, 

 first, the free use of the fountain syringe 

 and warm water to relieve the b3wels of the 

 constipation ; second, external '• fomenta- 

 tions" with water of a temperature to suit 

 the case, in easing the pain and reducing 

 the infiamation : third, the balancing of 

 the circulation by diverting the excess of 

 blood from the parts inflamed to the ex- 

 tremities by means of warm foot baths, 

 cool applications to the head, etc ; fourth, 

 abstention from food till the acute stage is 

 passed and drinking freely of pure soft 

 water ; fifth, sponging aud gentle rubbing of 

 the whole surface : a constant supply of pure 

 fresh air, and mental quiet. 



Under this simple treatment, dictated by 

 common sense and physiology, 99 cases in 

 every hundred of this usually mortal disease 

 would recover, and without the frequent 

 " complications " or .se(/»etoe. This is not 

 only giving Nature a fair chance, but it is 

 aiding and assisting her. But what is the 

 result under drug treatment ? Everybody 

 knows that a large proportion of the patients 

 — many of them in the prime of life as we 



