The herald., 1895-04-01
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ON[tI fkUIi Il PHH4G[H
Ii Secures Health and Solves
Social Problems
w. F. MANNING'S LECTURE
Prevention OF Disease by Personal
Hygiene
The Lecturer Theories That Foods Composed
of Cereals Are Factors oil
Disease
w. F. MANNING'S LECTURE

There was fairly large congregation at
the Church of the New Era to listen to
W. f. Manning's lecture yesterday morn
ing on Fruit for Food and Health.
The lecturer commenced by urging the
Importance of right grip of the great
food question, and reading quotations on
that point. Amongst others one read:
Medical men are everywhere bending
their energies to that typical Wilderness
called health through proper alimentation
rather than through drugs; through proper
food they are striving to produce the
microbedefyin sound blood. Secure that
and one can laugh at the numberless bac
terra ever waiting to fall upon the un-
happy wretch whose blood is below par.
If consumptive can only find food of
which trihe more is assimiated than
usually, the seeds of the disease that
threatens to destroy him will be safely
encysted, and he may die at 30 of II
broken leg" During the past year, owing
to favorable reception of the Natural
Food doctrines, especially by the press
of Sacramento, Santa Cruz and San Fran
cisco, local Independent societies had
been founded n each OF these cities, and
at the last named a public fruit banquet
had been held at which nearly 100 were
present, which was very favorably re-
ported on by a special Times reporter.
Referring to Gronlund's definition of
society as an organism which seems now
to be accepted as q truism, it was the more
needful for Socialists TO bear i'll mind that
every individual was therefore an organ
or essential part of the organism, as every
Limb or protopasm or cell was an essen
| tia part of the human frame, and the
| health of the individual was as needful
| for the ideal state as were the mem
| hers and cells for the individual. How
were they to attain perfect physical heath?
Could they insure it by any of the recog-
nized systems of diet? No one seemed 20
care to get the matter of the prevention
of disease by personal hygiene thor
by which he could be fairly assured of
being always well. A mans most valued
possession was his life and the prudent
merchant would think it more important
to cover the risk from fire or sea that was
only onc-eighth of per cent for his paltry
! merchandise, who would take all his
risks of living to old age on conventional
lines.
And yet we no longer had any right for
such Indifference, because since the days
OF our grandparents there had been
spreading a general ell-founded recogni
bIOI tllSib law 10 ulilNtlSdl. we tdlh vi but
laws of the various sciences and guide
ourselves by them as we become experts
in any special branch. without a mo-
ment's rejection that our health and life
is conditioned by equally immutable law.
In this country there was not so much
excuse for this indifference, because the
science handbooks spread throughout
the schools afforded the clue by which
| this question could be settled. He had
/ spoken at many of the schools, as well as
| at the Academy OF Science and at State
| Board of Horticulture with leading uni
| yerslty professors present, but nowhere
had his declarations been challenged that
the cereal foods like bread We're the main
factors of>.disease. At Sacramento, after
an address to the Fruit Growers Conven-
ton, a unanimous resolution was adopted
inviting the State Board of Health to in
vestigate this question: He had not
heard how that was 10 result, and was
told doctors were too conservative.
Throughout the whole nation he found
boards OF health were nobly working for
preventing disease, but he had noticed in
many of them such boards were composed
of laymen, whilst in California they were
all doctors 1t was the more needful that
the public should see that their interests
were attended to. Personally the doctors
had been most friendly. They could not
get clue to their own ailments at times,
however, unless by a non-cereal diet.
They had the same table habits as the
general public, but many of them con-
essed that they knew starchy food were
bad.
In the course of his address, which was
nterspersed with personal testimonies
from acquaintances cured on a fruit and
meat or fruit and nut diet the lecturer
spoke of the errors of vegetarians in using
more grain foods than before and showed
that all the sciences relating to mans
food harmoniZed only with a diet of fruit
and nuts, as anatomy and anthropology
were very emphatic that man was by ma
ture and origin frugiverous, so, he eX-
planned, physiology, chemistry, pathol-
ogy, botany and forestry strongly en-
forced their system All the elements Of
pure nourishlnent were there, whilst all
the elements OF disease could be found in
cereal foods or meat or milk.
From the last California board of health
bulletin, as specimen of how disease
originates, he read extracts of a veterinary
DOCTORS address on the Origin OF Tu-
berculosis; he showed that it was every
where traced i'll new colonies to the intro
duction OF cows, and that although the
bacteria were killed in the cooking, their
toxic products remained as poison to
the system. Whilst there was no other
diet except fruit or nuts, and this might
be got absolutely free OF either adultera-
tion or contamination. this society
wanted it clearly understood that in the
present social conditions of unnaturally
hard labor and generally enfeebled stom-
achs, meat and milk would be needfu
for most people. Their ideal would come
all the faster as people realized that
mankind could not secure perfect health
on present conditions. This was to be
the best OF all worlds just soon as the
people learned to make the best possible
use of it.
By all odds the finest and strongest per-
formance in Trilby, which has been pro-
duced in Boston, is the Svengali of Wilton
Lackaye. With a false beaked snose and
lone hlack hair and WhiSkers with an