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it not only stimulates the appetite and aids digestion, 
but is at the same time better than any medicine for 
regulating the system. 
Persons inclined to be costive, especially children, will 
find honey restore them to a perfectly normal condition ; 
while the continued use of purging medicines on the other 
hand causes a distressing reaction, because each dose 
impairs the delicate and marvellous membrane lining the 
stomach ; whereas the only rational course to pursue is 
that of endeavoring to restore the already injured or 
relaxed parts. 
Persons in fear of consumption have received great 
benefit from the constant use of honey. Instances are on 
record where people have been quite cured by it; while 
others past all hope of recovery have enjoyed many years 
of life they had ceased to hope for or expect. 
Experts have found that most people, at some period 
of their lives, are affected more or less by the action of 
the microbes peculiar to consumption ; but the greater 
proportion of mankind fortunately do not succumb to this 
malady. It is really wonderful that so many do escape 
self-destruction, when we consider that many people 
deliberately shut themselves into a bedroom at night, to 
breathe the same poisonous air over and over again during 
the hours of darkness. And yet these same good people 
would be horrified if they could but fully realize how 
rapidly they are travelling towards destruction; that the 
lungs are simply choking for the want of that life-giving 
oxygen so soon consumed in a closed room, and which the 
blood is asking for at every fresh breath. Breathing 
vitiated air feeds the dread microbe, and encourages it to 
take up its permanent abode, while each succeeding cell 
of the lung thus slowly destroyed is never replaced. A 
reasonable supply of fresh air, and a rational diet of 
