TttE BEi<:-kKEPERS' RRVIEW. 



treatment. The patient may, after a long 

 siege, pull through in the end, in spite oi 

 doctor and drugs, or he may die. If the 

 former, the doctor gets the credit of saving 

 him, if the latter, the doctor " did all he 

 could. " 



Under natural treatment, where Nature is 

 assisted of being opposed, the patient is up 

 in a few days with no seiiuelae and vitality 

 unimpaired. 



Selby, Ont. Feb. SISIm;. 



1 When I received Mr. Pringle's first arti- 

 cle, that appeared in the Jan. Review, 1 

 wrote him for farther particulars on some 

 points. From his reply I copy the follow- 

 ing : — Ed. J 



Dear Hutchinson^In answer to your in- 

 quiries re drinking and cooking water I 

 may say that ordinary rain water or clean 

 snow water boiled thoroughly for, say ten 

 minutes, in an agate pot or ordinary tea 

 kettle is quite good and safe for all drink- 

 ing and cooking purpose. It is better to 

 boil the water ten to fifteen minutes because 

 although there would not likely be disease 

 germs in ordinary rain water, there miyht 

 be, and some of those spores have wonder- 

 ful vitality, resisting a high degree of heat. 

 However, the typhoid germ and those of 

 that type of fevers succumb to a moderate 

 degree of boiling. To be safe, boil ten to 

 fifteen minutes. We often use the clean, 

 rain water without either boilingor filtering, 

 but then we live in the country where the 

 air is pure and I have a nice clean roof 

 specially prepared to catch and shed the 

 domestic water which runs from the eave 

 troughs right into a clean pipe above ground, 

 which is covered with a strainer. The water, 

 of course, runs through this strainer in en- 

 tering the pipe or cistern, and is drawn off 

 through a faucet as required. Why not fix 

 up in this way under your cleanest roof ? 



As to the filter, for about twenty-five to 

 thirty years previous to the World's Fair, I 

 used " The Kedzie" charcoal filter which 

 is good enough, but the trouble with the 

 charcoal filters is that they require re-pack- 

 ing so often, else they get foul. The filter 

 I am using now and since 1 8!»3 is a " Pasteur- 

 Chamberland " which I brought home from 

 the World's Fair. This is no doubt the best 

 filter in the world if we can only be sure 

 that the filtering tubes are all right. No 

 matter what kind of filter you may use I 

 would advise boiling the water too, and boil 



after filtering— ho/ before. The Pasteur 

 filter is somewhat expensive, and if you do 

 not feel like getting a filter, rain-water as 

 described above, thoroughly boiled, you may 

 feel safe in using. I shall however by this 

 mail order you a catalogue of the Pasteur 

 from the factory in Dayton, Ohio. 



As to the quantity to boil at a time, and 

 the cooling, you can boil enough at once to 

 do several days forward. You can keep it 

 in clean vessels without exposure to the air. 

 In summer we cool the water in the refrig- 

 erator, or, when ice is scarce, in a well, (iet 

 a large jug, well-corked, and let it down full 

 to the bottom of the well by means of a rope. 

 Draw on it as you want it. If the folks 

 don't like the taste of the pure soft water at 

 first get lemons, they are cheap and whole- 

 some, and use the juice to flavor the water 

 or put a handful of oatmeal in the jug of 

 water which will give it a nice taste. If the 

 oatmeal is put in the water it must be 

 changed every day or two. At meals use 

 kaoka. I send you the recipe for making 

 it. If that does not suit the taste of all, 

 take the boiled water hot, and add boiled 

 milk and sugar or honey to it and make a 

 tea that way. There should be no drinking 

 as a rule during the eating, for several 

 reasons. Drink moderately after eating or 

 a while before. At meal time, warm drink, 

 as a rule, is better than cold. At meals eat 

 slowly, masticate thoroughly, and talk 

 pleasantly, leaving all business behind yo>i 

 in the office or somewhere else. 



Allen Pbinglk. 



What We Learners Want. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



pIRST of all, 

 1^ after the bee- 

 book and along 

 with the experi- 

 ence, we want the 

 facts; secondly, the 

 direct applications 

 of the facts ; and 

 here Mr. Heddon 

 and his Quarterly 

 would stop. But 

 we want more than 

 that. We want, 

 thirdly, the relations of the facts. To mere- 

 ly know how to apply them in certain cases 



