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bilitated condition of the digestive or- 

 gans causes the pylorus (outlet of the 

 stomach) to remain unclosed until in- 

 gested nutrition, or else nutrition 

 pumped from other parts of the body 

 and carried to it by the blood, enables 

 the pylorus to resume its action. If a 

 meal is eaten while the pylorus re-' 

 mains in this inactive state a part of 

 the food will go directly into the in- . 

 testines and become a most contam- 

 inating material. 



"In twenty minutes to an hour after 

 swallowing . the above mixture there 

 will be a movement of the bowels by 

 which you can detect the truth or 

 wrong in the foregoing statement. In 

 one or two hours later the natural hun- 

 ger will assert itself in an unmistak- 

 able way and the organs of digestion 

 will be prepared to properly care for 

 it." 



Dr. Miller: What is the medicinal 

 quality he has been telling about? 



Mr. Holbrook: I might say from the 

 time I commenced to sell honey I 

 recommend as a remedy a pint of hot 

 water with a tablespoonful of honey 

 and six tablespoonfuls of milk, and 

 week after week reports of relief from 

 stomach trouble commenced to come 

 in until I felt perfectly safe in giving 

 that out as a remedy. In a great many 

 cases we used it as a leverage to start 

 to sell honey. I have found it to be the 

 best starter. There is scarcely a fam- 

 ily that does not have some one who 

 has stomach trouble; and I think if you 

 get this started as a medicine they are 

 so pleased that they have recovered 

 that they cannot do enough for you. 

 I know that was my experience, and 

 I believe the same thing will work in 

 every town, and after you get their 

 friendship it is easy to push the sale 

 of honey as a food. Mr. Todd said 

 his wife had been drinking fermented 

 honey for a few months and had 

 gained something like twenty pounds 

 in weight. It will stand thrashing 

 out. There is something in it. 



Mr. Moore: I am selling honey con- 

 stantly, and I am preaching to all my 

 friends that honey with a great many 

 people is better than an equal amount 

 of sugar, and I think the older we be- 

 come our digestive organs are weaker. 

 Honey is better than sugar, that is, 

 for the people with whom honey agrees. 

 You will find if you substitute honey 

 for a given amount of sugar it will 

 lengthen your life, and I am preaching 

 it to my customers. 



Dr. Bohrer: When I was President 

 of the Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion a physician came into our meet- 

 ing and wanted to know what the fees 

 were for becoming a member. It was 

 a doctor in Topeka who came in, and 

 he said the reason he wanted to be- 

 come a member was because he wanted 

 to study the habits of the honey-bee, 

 and wanted to start a large apiary in 

 Missouri to procure pure honey for 

 patients suffering from the white 

 plague, that is, consumption. He said 

 it was conceded among physicians that 

 honey as an article of food and as an 

 ingredient in the medicines they used 

 was the most valuable of all the sweets 

 in the world. The Governor has called 

 a convention to meet in Topeka in the 

 House of Representatives- on the 3d 

 and 4th of this month. I want to go 

 down there to see what is being done. 

 A camp for consumptives is being -run 

 in the hills near Topeka. One of the 

 secrets of it is to have the patients 

 sleep in tents as much as possible and 

 to get up into a higher and drier at- 

 mosphere; but honey, they claim, is 

 going to prove valuable for consump- 

 tives. As a practitioner I found that 

 as an ingredient in cough syrups it is 

 the most valuable thing I can get hold 

 of. It is coming to the front,- and will 

 supersede almost anything else, and 

 an extensive demand is likely to be 

 had for honey for this purpose. The 

 white pfegue in this country is increas- 

 ing, and if there is anything in the 

 way of diet or drugs suited to patients 

 of that kind it is a good thing, as it 

 is getting to be the bane of the coun- 

 try; it causes more fatal sickness than 

 any other one ailment in the country. 

 I call attention to this for what it is 

 worth. It is now attracting the at- 

 tention of our ablest scientific men in 

 the medical profession. 



Dr. Miller: I suppose if you were to 

 ask the average physician about it he 

 would probably look at you in surprise 

 if you would ask him whether honey 

 was a good thing for consumptives. 

 He would look at you in surprise and 

 perhaps give you an evasive answer, 

 and if you asked him what was the 

 right thing he would tell you cod liver 

 oil, and cod liver oil is the standard 

 thing. Physicians will tell you they 

 know that the amount of nourishment 

 got from that is what is wanted to 

 help a consumptive patient. And I 

 have wondered many a time for j^ears 

 why they couldn't get it into their 



