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futility of the modern method of treating infectious diseases by means
of drugs and vaccines.

It is well known that the infecting agent or microbe found in cases of
typhoid fever originates in man himself, that, in fact, it is
essentially a man-made disorder. Dr Budd, who was the first to fully
investigate this important subject, brought together the most
convincing considerations to show this.

We know further that impure water and milk, shellfish and certain
foods which are contaminated with sewage are capable of giving rise to
epidemics of this complaint.

This was shown in Paris in May last, when a plumber carelessly
connected a pipe along which Seine water flowed to a drinking-water
pipe. The typhoid germ is always present in Seine water and this
mistake cost the lives of twenty people.

Dr Freeman, an American doctor, who has studied the habits of the
typhoid germ, tells us that it does not survive so well outside the
human body as does the tubercle microbe, but it can, nevertheless, do
an incalculable amount of mischief when the local authorities are
careless about the matter of sewage disposal.

A great deal has been heard of late of what are termed Typhoid
Carriers. There are apparently numbers of people who, while they
appear to be in good health, yet harbour these germs and are thus
liable to infect others with them; and the problem is what to do with
them.

The orthodox authorities, as happened in the case cited above, would
like to isolate them indefinitely and even to pension them off for
life, but this seems to be a hopeless way out of the difficulty.

The remedy seems obvious to me. Let us stop the drugs and serums and
use common-sense hygiene of the body instead. This must be patent to
anyone who has any knowledge of the subject; but why the authorities
do not put it into execution I am at a loss to imagine. Surely the
right thing to do is to clear away the impurities in which the typhoid
germs live. _By depriving them of the material or soil in which they
grow and propagate we should practically starve them out of
existence._

Moreover, this seems to me to be a perfectly easy procedure. If this
woman were handed over to me for treatment I should at once place her
on an antiseptic diet consisting solely of salads, grated roots, fresh
fruits, sour buttermilk and dextrinised cereals. The effect of this
diet would be to cleanse and sterilise the entire digestive tract, and
thus break up and