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8 change with great rapidity and are less substantial than those of a vegetable-eating person. The flesh-eater contains a large per cent, of substances in a state of decomposition—which renders him liable to disease from the slightest exciting causes."

"The numerous maladies of the stomach and the intestines from simple catarrh to the most serious diseases of the organs, are often due to our appetite for meat and other stimulants."

"The hog is a scavenger by nature. His organization indicates it, for he has a regular system of sewers running all through his body and discharging on the inside of his fore legs, the express object of which is to convey away the filth with which his body teems.

What must be the condition of the body of an animal so foul as to require a regular system of drainage to convey away its teeming filth? Sometimes the outlets get closed by the accumulation of external filth. Then the scrofulous, ichorous stream ceases to flow, and the animal quickly sickens and dies, unless the owner speedily cleanses the parts, and so opens anew the feculent fountain and allows the festering poison to escape.

What dainty-morsels those same feet and legs make! What a delicate flavor they have, as every epicure asserts! Do you suppose the corruption with which they are saturated has any influence upon their taste and healthfulness?

The process of fattening hogs is one productive of disease. A fat hog is one which is grossly diseased. That this is the case is shown by the condition of the liver. The livers of all fat hogs are masses of disease. Every butcher will tell you that he finds not more than one liver in twenty among fat hogs which is not covered with abscesses.

The loathesome tape-worm and the terrible trichinae are communicated by the eating of pork. No cure for trichinosis has been discovered. About one hog in every ten is affected. No pork is safe."

"The hogs in town are dying with the cholera. The elephantine butcher and dispenser of barley mead was compelled to or did ship his to Chicago, to be devoured by the anarchists, that the lives and health of our people