112 A Modern Bce-fann 



Decomposed Animal flatter and Excreta 



When once gaining access to the food or water taken 

 into the system of the living subject has resulted in 

 infectious diseases (micro-organic) from time immemorial. 



It should be self-evident that only healthy tissue existed 

 prior to the arrival of that disordered condition which 

 primarily enabled the parasitic microbe to live and thrive 

 upon it ; i.e., before there existed any other relative 

 animal matter in a diseased state from which micro- 

 organic infection could be carried. The same disease can 

 therefore again " originate " in those combinations of 

 matter acting in opposition to the laws of health, without 

 any contact with existing infected animal matter. 



One may build a new house, he may place there a 

 family with no trace of disease for years before or after, 

 and yet ultimately through some defect in sanitary con- 

 ditions, that house becomes the habitation of disease, and 

 a source of infection through the medium of micro- 

 organisms therein developed. It may be the water is 

 contaminated by the choking of a sewage pipe, but its 

 contents nevertheless are the refuse of the inmates, and 

 from them has been conveyed some hidden seed undis- 

 covered and unsuspected until the suitable soil occurred 

 for the seed to germinate and spread devastation around. 



We may well consider that man carries within him 

 hidden seeds of disease, which may or may not develop 

 into destructive germs according to his conditions of living 

 or vitality. It has even been suggested that though in 

 perfect health, within his mouth may be found disease 

 germs identical with those accompanying that dreaded 

 malady diphtheria. And why should not the unsanitary 

 conditions presented by our proposition — the living, 

 feeding and breeding among the rotting dead — why 



