n living animals as few
and far between as was compatible with duty. They would be
exceptional of exceptional, and painless from beginning to end.
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I recommend, as the best method of obtaining the great aims of
medicine,--sanitation and the prevention of disease,--first, to make
medicine the grand master and teacher of universal cleanliness, and to
make everyone of the community a disciple and follower of the same
law. The minister of medical art should be prepared to devote his
life to this simple duty. He needs no higher calling, no nobler
vocation, and a world that knew its own interests should sustain him
in the task. At present, the rage is for experimentation, although it
seems least wanted, for which rage THE SELFISH AND IGNORANT WORLD IS
MOST TO BE BLAMED. The world now, as in the days of Naaman the leper,
wants to be healed and protected by elaborate processes, when th
esimplest and surest remedy is in its own hands.

From a long experience as a teacher of physiology and of public
health, I am convinced that a school or university of preventive
medicine would fill an important want. It would tend to make every
man and woman a sanitarian, and would help to bring the principles of
health into every home. It would be of direct and practical utility;
it would instil an exalted comprehension of natural laws, of the
advantages of following those laws, and of the danger and folly of
setting them at ignorant defiance.... The end would be the
accomplishment of the great aim, the development of the health of the
people; the art of preventive medicine without inflicting pain on any
living thing.

APPENDIX VIII

Since the preceding pages were in type, the United States Department
of Agriculture has adopted new regulations governing the inspection of
meat. The rules ordered to be applicable to meat derived from animals
affected by cancer or malignant disease, are as follows (italics not
in original):

Regulation II. Disposal of Diseased Carcasses, etc.

SECTION 7.--ANY INDIVIDUAL ORGAN OR PART OF A CARCASS AFFECTED WITH
CARCINOMA OR SARCOMA shall be condemned. In case the carcinoma or
sarcoma involves any internal organ TO A MARKED EXTENT, or affects the
muscles, skeleton, or body lymph glands even primarily, the carcass
shall be condemned. In case of metastasis to any other organ or part
of a carcass, or if metastasis has not occurred