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unable to cope with them. To mention but 

 one will suffice to illustrate my meaning. 



Blight's Disease is not only increasing in 

 the number of its victims, but it is becom- 

 ing more deadly in its ravages. Our great 

 physicians are unable to ward it off or to 

 stay its course when it begins its deadly 

 work. They tell us no one knows what pro- 

 duces Bright's Disease, but any horse 

 breeder could answer that question. 



On every hand, the question is asked: 

 Why this increase in Bright's Disease? 

 What can I do to escape its deadly grasp? 

 Its great prevalence is due to one reason 

 and one reason only. For generations, we 

 have been breeding, or, as the horseman 

 would say, we have bred for Bright's Dis 

 ease, and now we have that for which we 

 have been breeding. It is true, we have 

 been propagating it unconsciously, but none 

 the less surely. Bright's Disease is a 

 manifestation of weak kidneys. By our 

 ignorant thoughtless marriages, we have 

 been doubling up this weakness. By our 

 social indulgences, we have been adding 

 too great a burden to the kidneys, and 



