Article March 2, 1899 Issue

Meat, Drink, and the Doctors

The World

WHAT shall we eat and drink? One after another the great doctors have set a seal of condemnation upon nearly everything that we like.

Tomatoes, we are warned, breed cancer. Cucumbers give colic. Beans are overrich and destructive of digestion. Beef contains the germ of tapeworm. Pigs and chickens have trichinae. Sugar, bread, and peas tend to diabetes. Wine gives gout. The "old oaken bucket that hangs in the well," the "moss-covered bucket," is infested with diseasegerms, and, besides that, the water of the well, not being properly aerated, is prolific of malady.

Even the bubbling spring bears typhoid in its waters, coming as they do from no man knows whither. Milk, the accepted type of innocence, is a disseminator of tuberculosis and other dread diseases, besides being indigestible to grownup folk.

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