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- eight adults
- one case the patient ate a hearty meal of meat while convalescent
- 1 knew the human stomach would adjust itself to anything
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Our frieiid James H. Gartside, of West Philadelphia, thus gives his experience with last winter's epidemic :
"I believe that man endowed by a sa- preme being with reason, should utilize his reason in all things, especially his health.
JAMBS H. GARTSIDE.
"I,ast winter we had a great many cases of La Grippe and typhoid fever in West Philadelphia, called an epidemic and the press attributed it to the water supply. My family consists of eight adults, four of whom are boarders. I was the only one that es- caped the grippe. I never stopped using the city water, while the others used ice, spring and bottled water from supposed medicated springs. I stopped using meat, while the others used all kinds of meats. I substituted Peanut Butter and other kinds of nut food. I reasoned this way: I noticed that the doctors forbade all grippe patients from eating meats while under their care. In one case the patient ate a hearty meal of meat while convalescent, which resulted in a relapse that came near proving fatal. I reasoned that if it was necessary to slop eating meat to enable the
doctor to efifect a cure, it would be wise to stop eating it before he was called in. It would certainly assist the doctor, if not prevent the necessity of calling him in.
"The reason I continued to drink the city water was this: 1 knew the human stomach would adjust itself to anything that, by gradually increasing the dose, it can be made to retain enough arsenic to kill a dozen men whose stomachs had not been trained to the use of this particular drug. AH waters affect strangers, while -the same waters have no eSect on the natives. For this reason I resolved that it would be the saftest plan to continue using that water which my stomach was adjilstBd to.
"I had the typhoid fever while in the Army of the Potomac, in 1S63. I believe it was caused, by the eating of too much fat pork. I know that I ate a ^at deal more than the good judgment ofmymother would have allowed me to eat while at . home, befwre entering the army. It is pos.- sible that I would not have eaten as much meat had I the variety of vegetables that my stomach had been trained to at home. In other words, the meal prepared by the young man's mother, with its variety of vegetables, is healthful, while that prepared by himself in the army, with meat alone, ts poison. Reasoning on these -lines and judging from my past experience, I believe that most of the sickness at home and in the army is caused by a sudden change from a vegetable to a meat diet. It does not necessarily need to be canned beef: an over-dose of turkey will "produce the same effect. You know how yon feet' th» day after Thanksgiving Day. . I hope t&e^ few lines will start others to reasoning but their health problem."
Mr, Gartside is engaged in the very laudable endeavor to induce habits of clean- liness. He is the inventor of a washing machine of very simple construction, which, with the use of his soap, makes washing only playing with soap, water and clothes.
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