The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
SANITARY LAWS OF ALL AGES.

Moses the First Lawgiver-State Medi-
 cine, Past Present and Future.
 Thirty odd centuries ago, the great
 law-giver Moses laid down sanitary
 rules, regulations and exercises which
 are followed at the present day by all
 civilized and semi-civilized nations.
 Some thirteen hundred years before
 the Christian era, the code contained in
 the Mosaic Exodus laid down restric-
 tions on every possible act that man
 kind may perform to impair or impede
 existence. Such as they are it is hard
 ly possible to improve upon them at this
 enlightened day. Moses instructed his
 people that those sanitary commands
 were inspired by a Supreme Being that
 the only health officer in existence was
 the Almighty who could watch over
 their trespasses against the law. No
 matter where they might be, or what
 they might do the Supreme OVerseer
 would bring them to justice for the vii olation of the code of health.
 It was handed down to the Israelties in an oral way for about one thousand years, when it became corrupt and neg lected, like other laws of long standing when there is no one to enforce them,
 About six centuries before the Chris tian era, the great Sanhedrim was formed; it consisted of seventy-two men, who compiled the oral law to written law, adding to it, besides the moral, every possible sanitary regula fn,o bnt hna1tb and life This tribunal enacted laws to inn prove every possible means of securing healthy food, clothing and shelter, and established minor judiciary courts in every possible community, and gave these courts the right to bring before themselves any one who violated the sanitary measures. Tke laws of the were enforced and well kept for hundreds of years, during the time that Judea could establish and enforce it's own laws, but when it fell under the of the Romans. they were unable to enforce the laws with Roman influence; consequently, they were kept only by the pious Jews.
 The infldels could not be compelled to keep the commands under the Roman law Hence the pious Jews of the sixth appealed to the Roman Empe- TOT Justinian, under whose reign code was compiled by sixteen eminent ju- rists, establishing laws for all Roman states, and quoting decisions mostly from the Jewish Talmud, including many moral and sanitary measures, which is now termed the Justinian law. of no die laws, which did not differ from the Mosaic, they added many practical and regulations. It is to the Jus tinian law that our present civilization is indebted for the abolishment of po- lygamy. It Is to the laws of Justinian that we are indebted for the prohibit ton of the marriage consanguinity, The combination of the Mosaic, Talmu- lie and Justinian laws forms fair code for the preservation of human life. The Bible itself is one of the very best ext books on hygiene that has ever been written. He who strictly follows ts teachings will be perfect sanitari- m. We must learn" says distin | guished writer, 'to regard physical as we'll as moral sins as greatly displeas- | ng in the sight of God"
 Jewish hygiene and diet are well | lnown for their regulation to healthy | ood, for the Jews are restricted to cer- ain fish of the waters and certain | Deasts of the field. It is from the Mo aic law that we have learned to legis- ate against unwholesonle food, espec- ally of animal food Every one of us ,nows with what care the Jews kill l heir cattle and their fowl, and with what care the autopses are made on he animals before they are declared fit or use.
 The sanitary laws of Moses provided or the segregation of lepers and the mitigation and destruction of infected , Iothing. These had great influence on nations when contagion was ecognized in epidemics, and probably lost of them were, from the stand oint of to-day, either directly or indi- ectly infectious, and a grand advance preservative methods became possi- le. All European nations enforced