346 A Moaern Bee-farm 



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 pro- 

 portion of mankind fortunately do not succumb to this 

 malady. It is really wonderful that so many do escape- 

 self-destruction, when we consider the numerous class of 

 people who 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 

 realise 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 nutritious foods, including fruit and honey, should 



