which the doctors have not told him how to prevent, to submit them to such treatment.’  But nothing is said about the desirability of exercising government over oneself, one’s body and one’s mind!  And nothing is said either, but it is suggested, that, if one accepts meekly coercive treatment by official doctors, one may probably be able to ignore the laws of life and health without having to pay the penalty.

No sane and properly instructed citizens would be satisfied to have State officials compel them to do what they ought to do for themselves.  It is because of this and because the suggestions and compulsions of modern medicine are in keeping with the prevailing philosophy that accumulates knowledge without wisdom, that we need such counteracting influences as are afforded by journals like The Healthy Life.

 LAYMAN.

 A DOCTOR ON DOCTORS.

“I charge that whereas the first duty of a physician is to instruct the people in the laws of health and thus prevent disease, the tendency has ever been towards a conspiracy of mystery, humbug, and silence.”

“I charge that the general tendency of the profession has been to depreciate the importance of personal and municipal cleanliness, and to inculcate a reliance on drug medicines, vaccination, and other unscientific expedients.”

 ALEXANDER ROSS, M.D., F.R.S.

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 MODERN GERM MANIA:  A CASE IN POINT.

 Under the sensational heading, Doomed to Carry Germs:  Woman Typhoid
 Victim for Life, the following account appeared recently in News of
 the World:—­

Almost unique in medical history is the case of a woman typhoid carrier, who, it is said, will carry the bacilli with her through life.  The case is described by Dr Barbara Cunningham in a report of the Manchester Medical Officer of Health.  In order that the woman shall cease to be a source of danger—­as she has been keeping lodgers—­the health authorities are giving her 7s. a week, and that, with her old-age pension of 5s., will be sufficient to keep her without lodgers.  The case has aroused much interest