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9 might be spared until the town goes license in the spring."

Cancer, and every other form of scrofulitic disease, was traced by the ancient Romans to the one source indicated by the name they applied: "Scrofula," diminutive of the Latin word

"The reports the seizure of five cattle suffering from consumption and lump jaw, that were about to be made into sausage in Camden, N. J."

"Celsus affirms that the bodies which are filled with much animal food become the most quickly old and diseased. It was proverbial that the ancient athletes were the most stupid of men. The cynic Diogenes, being asked what was the cause of this stupidity, is reported to have answered, 'Because they are wholly formed of the flesh of swine and oxen.' Contagions act with greater virulence upon bodies prepared by a full diet of animal food." . . . "Abstaining from animal food palliates, when it does not cure, all constitutional diseases; while on the other hand, the use of animal food aggravates, and tends to develop to a fatal issue, such diseases. The recuperative force is more active in those who abstain from animal food, and they recover more readily and quickly from accidents and wounds."

"Meat and whiskey are both stimulants. When one accustomed to the use of either fails to get it, a loss of force is felt. This feeling is an abnormal condition produced by the continued use of stimulating diet and drinks, that keep the system under a high pressure process, without properly nourishing it. One whose wastes are fed by flesh becomes exhausted sooner than he who depends upon plants."

"Fat meats, butter, and greasy substances are difficult of digestion, offensive to the stomach, and tend to derange that organ and induce disease."

Timoric, in his account of the plague of Constantinople, asserts that the Armenians, who live chiefly on vegetable food, were far less disposed to the disease than other people."