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WHAT IS YOUR LIFE-AIM?
““ For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Phil, 1: 21.
?” Answer, friend,
“For me to live is
what is it?
For some ’tis fame;
For others sin, or wealth, or passing pleas-
ure;
Where is man’s heart, there is his one chief
treasure.
"Tis well, while there is time, to weigh and
measure
Thy life's true aim;
For in the Great Assize, when God shall visit,
In praise or blame
“ According to their works,” what shall it say,
The answer of thy life, in that last day?
For thee, will death be loss,
Eternal shame?
Or gain — thro’ Calvary’s cross
And Jesus’ name?
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“For me to live is
“To die is [i
What shall the answer be?
— J. H. S., in London Christian.
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TUBERCULOSIS FROM COW’S
MILK
L. A. S,
T is a common saying that
when doctors disagree the
layman can take his choice;
but in so serious a question
as that of the cause of con-
sumption, it is well to give
weight to the opinions and
cautions of reputable physi-
cians, even though based on diametrically
opposite views. It has long been taught
and commonly believed that the chief
cause of tuberculosis in human beings is
the breathing of infected air, contamin-
ated with the germs emanating from dried
tuberculous sputum; and that disinfec-
tion of the latter by burning or other
process is the most effective way to com-
bat and stamp out the disease. This is
the view advocated by the eminent Dr.
Robert Koch, of Berlin, and a host of
other eminent physicians, but an-
other eminent authority on the subject,
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Prof. E. Von Behring, has come forward
with another theory of the cause of con-
sumption, which is certainly well worth
noting. In an article contributed to the
Independent, in which he presents his
views in contrast with those of Dr. Koch,
this authority says: —
“According to Koch the cause of most
cases of tuberculosis in human beings is
due to breathing air containing tubercle
bacilli through the larynx into the lungs.
In opposition to this view, I assert that
in so far as epidermiology is concerned,
a person rarely gets consumption in this
way. Rather, such individuals get con-
sumption who have had the germ of the
disease brought into their bodies with
the milk in childhood. Further, the milk
bacilli work through the medium of the
digestive organs and lymphatics, and thus
into the blood, and generally the lungs
are infected by the blood. . . .
“According to Koch’s teaching, the
tubercle bacilli which enter into the hu-
man organism through cow’s milk are
not capable of producing tuberculosis or
consumption ; while I assert that the tu-
berculosis bacilli originating from cows
are not only as dangerous as, but more
dangerous even, than those originating
from consumptive persons. . .
“ Koch regards infection in adults as
the most powerful cause of the origin of
pulmonary consumption. I maintain
that the decisive tuberculosis infections
occur in childhood. Indeed, in most
cases where consumption develops at a
later period in life, I assert it is the result
of germs acquired in infancy through the
medium of the mother’s milk, the nurse’s
milk, or with cow’s milk in the bottle ——
in a word, as babies. And once more I
would reiterate what I have so long main-
tained, ‘Babies’ milk is the principal
source for the origin of consumption,’
and, * Consumption is the last verse of the
song which is first sung to the suckling
1 infancy.
Both these eminent authorities agree
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that infants and young children are very
susceptible to tuberculosis infection.
The safe way will be to take all rea-
sonable precautions against both these
possible sources of infection. Avoid air
which may contain tubercle bacilli, and
take pains to find out whether vour milk
supply comes from a sanitary source ; and ~
if there is any question about it, boil
your milk.
Another unquestionable cause of tuber-
culosis, and pneumonia as well, or rather
a condition which greatly favors their
development, is the breathing of impure
air. Consumption is known as “the
great white plague,” because it is a
scourge confined largely to the white or
civilized races. Savage races, having
no fine dwellings, live more in the open
air and are almost wholly free from this
disease.
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A PLEA FOR AN OVERWORKED
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SomE men wonder why they are ill.
If they would pause for a few moments
before a meal, and consider that the sto-
mach is after all a sensitive organ, and
not a mere receptacle into which we may
dump anything and everything, possibly
they would make such a change in their
combinations of foods as would save
them many aches and pains. In conver-
sation with a portly looking gentleman
one day on the question of diet, we elic-
ited the fact that he had partaken of the
following items that day for dinner. This
was not an extraordinary meal, but a fair
average sample of his every-day dinner,
and from personal observation we have
no hesitation in saying that such a pro-
gram forms the average dinner of thou-
sands of city men, who wonder why they
suffer so much torture from dyspepsia.
This is not a copy of a menu, but a list
of the items selected from a menu by one
individual :—
Anchovies and oil, macaroni soup,
whiting fillet, grilled chicken and mush-
rooms, peas and potatoes, stewed pears
and jelly, four wines, cheese and salad,
fruit, cup of coffee, and a cigar.
Is it any wonder a poor stomach re-
bels when it is forced to receive such an
incompatible mass of ingredients? The
simpler the diet and the smaller the va-
riety of dishes, the greater will be the
happiness and health of the individual.—
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