spoon until the whole of the tissue is forcibly and roughly curetted away, consisting of pus, morbid serum, epithelium, fibrous tissue of the skin, and any foreign matter on or in it, constituting what is called “pulp.”  This pulp is then passed between glass rollers for trituration and afterwards mixed with a definite amount of glycerine and distilled water.  This complex pathologic product of unknown origin is injected into the wholesome bodies of helpless children under the false but plausible name of “pure calf lymph.” ...

I oppose the practice of vaccination because under whatever pretext performed the implantation of disease elements into the healthy human organism is irrational and injurious.  It is subversive of the fundamental principles of sanitary science, while the attainment of health as a prophylactic measure is rational and in harmony with the ascertained laws of hygiene and consistent with the canons of common-sense.  I am firmly convinced that the absurd and unreasonable dogma which assumes to conserve health by propagating disease should receive the open condemnation of every scientific sanitarian.  That this health-blighting delusion conceived in the ignorance of a past generation should find lodgment in the minds of intelligent people enjoying the light of the world’s highest civilisation is to my mind inexplicable....

Sanitation and isolation of the infected offer the only rational and effective antidote for these disorders.  Away, then, with the abominable and filthy subterfuge!  Give us health instead of disease.  Health is the great prophylactic.

No man in perfect health can be truly said to be susceptible to the infection of small-pox, nor to that of any other zymotic disease.  Vigorous health confers immunity from disease-producing agents as nothing else can.  It is usually after the vital functions have become impaired by the effects of vaccination or some other injurious cause that individuals become susceptible to small-pox infection.

 J.W.  HODGE, M.D.

 [The above article can be obtained in pamphlet form from the
 publisher.  Wm. J. Furnival, Stone.  Staffs.—­EDS.]

 THE NEW RACE.

 (Specially written for THE HEALTHY LIFE.)

     A new race on the ruins of the old
       Build we:  a temple of the human form
       Fairer than marble, since with life-blood warm,
     Well crowned with its appointed crown of gold,
     Russet or ebony; lines clear and bold
       Beneath—­a citadel no ills can storm,
       Buttressed with health; a type to be the norm
     In that great age the world shall yet behold.

     For now the laws of Health and Heaven are seen
       In their identity, life’s body and soul;
     Though, like divorce, disease may come between
       What God hath joined; but at the human goal,
     Where the New Race rules, splendid and serene,
       Sit Health and Holiness, made one and whole.