A great deal has been heard of late of what are termed Typhoid Carriers.  There are apparently numbers of people who, while they appear to be in good health, yet harbour these germs and are thus liable to infect others with them; and the problem is what to do with them.

 The orthodox authorities, as happened in the case cited above, would
 like to isolate them indefinitely and even to pension them off for
 life, but this seems to be a hopeless way out of the difficulty.

The remedy seems obvious to me.  Let us stop the drugs and serums and use common-sense hygiene of the body instead.  This must be patent to anyone who has any knowledge of the subject; but why the authorities do not put it into execution I am at a loss to imagine.  Surely the right thing to do is to clear away the impurities in which the typhoid germs live. By depriving them of the material or soil in which they grow and propagate we should practically starve them out of existence.

Moreover, this seems to me to be a perfectly easy procedure.  If this woman were handed over to me for treatment I should at once place her on an antiseptic diet consisting solely of salads, grated roots, fresh fruits, sour buttermilk and dextrinised cereals.  The effect of this diet would be to cleanse and sterilise the entire digestive tract, and thus break up and clear away the soil in which the microbes are living.  Supplementary to this cleansing diet other means could be adopted to effect a general purification of the whole body.  Thus vapour baths could be used to promote skin action; beverages could be taken morning and night, consisting of distilled water with lemon juice or suitable herbal “teas” to promote free action of the kidneys; and colon-flushing treatment could be used to fully cleanse the colon, or large bowel.

By combined treatment of this rational order, I am convinced that this woman would speedily become freed from her unpleasant visitors and would be enabled to return to her relations without, as it were, a stain upon her character.

 H. VALENTINE KNAGGS.

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