The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-17
Humanity Soon to Realize
Meat Is Not Essential to
Good Health.
VIEWS OF DR.. THURST0N
EXCAVATIONS SHOW THAT THE
MAN OF GLACIAL PERIOD WAS
ENTIRELY VEGETARIAN IN HIS
DIET

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! city of Richmond, and he has no
| hesitancy whatever in expressing his
views upon the subject. The recent
discovery of tuberculosis in a Wayne
county bullock draws from DIR. Thurs
ton some remarks on meat eating.
Let me remind YOU" said the doc
tor yesterday. that some five years
ago scientists settled the question
definitely that the origin of the tuber-
| clor or consumption germ was in cat
tie, and especially is the mich COW
liable to be infected with it A cas-
ual study of statistics will, / believe
convince the most skeptical of the I'M
healthfulness of meat-eating For in
stance the death rate from cancer in
the United States in 1900 was 60 per
900 of population; in beef eating
England it was in the same year 50
per 100000 of population. Norway
with a population in 1873 of 1,763 900
rears great numbers of cattle of an
inferior breed. In 1866 Norway rails
ed 953,056 cattle, 1,70o,394 sheep.
290,9S5 hogs, making a total of 2.949,-
AS besides some 1O1, 16S tame rein
deer, then add to this the immense
amount of fish consumed, and we may
easily guess why it is that Norway has
not only the highest death rate from
cancer, 81 per 100000, but also has
the highest death rate from consump-
ton. 1t will be remembered that the
two are simply varieties of the same
species of disease
so far as the strict government
inspection of meat at one common
abattoir is concerned the idea is right
because the people should be protect
ed until they learn that neither the
flesh or milk of animals are not es-
Sential to health or strength by any
means, and that the day has come
when civilized men can no longer kill
and eat animals, and escape the penal
ty of their physical sins. Recent ex-
cavations in Nebraska have shown
conclusively that man of the glacial
period was entirely vegetarian in his
diet. Studies of prehistoric times
developes the fact that the primitive
flesh eating man was a canibal
When the human family commenced
killing one another they discovered
that the burned flesh tasted good and
so they ate it, and from that took to
killing animals.
Il have been asked what is to be
done with the babies, and l say in re-
ply thereto: furnish them fully de-
veloped mothers instead of puny hot
bed chlld-mothers, stop the prevalent
race suicide, and thus afford the
babies mature vigor- giving mothers
milk, instead of tubercular cows milk, |
and diptheria. smallpox, scarlet fe- |
yer, cholera infantum, consumption, |
and all so-called diseases of child |
hood will be things of the past.
Talk about sterilizing milk, Do |
you know that the tubercle bacillus is /
q living organism, one-thousandth of /
an inch in length and one fifty-thous- I
andth of an inch in breadth, yet as !
much living thing as the man, horse
Dr. elephant. 1t eats grows, and en-
Joys animal existence as much as
man. 1t also raises large families
who also do we'll and prosper when
he proper soil or conditions within
he body are afforded 1t breeds and
invisibly and so rapidly
hat the consumptive will expectorate
| lively family of several billions ev-
cry time he coughs and spits a
noutfful on the sidewalk for the
grand society lady to mop up with her
'esplendent trail, and carry home to
he dear household
Il have actually demonstrated that
lfter subiecting the bacillus to $50
degrees of heat for so minutes that
| culture. could be made, that is a
est tube with the proper material
ould be infected, and a colony of sew
rial million grow within "a hours:
water boils at 212 degrees 1t has
'een demonstrated that these germs
will live and be happy even after
ubjected to 400 degrees of heat.
Il am asked if this condition of af-
airs would not be hard on the doc
ors. and | answer in the negative. |
would render the practice of ration
medicine the easiest and most sat
sfactory profession in the world
he patent medicine curse. the great
ost of uuacks and charltans all over
he land would be put out of service.
nd the educated. skilled. honest con-
cientious physician would then have
fair chance to make an honest liv-
lg
The day is coming when this con- /
ition viii exist. This is not a world I,
chance by any means: there is a 3
Ipreme Omnipotent and Omnicient I
Who maketh ALL | am
radical optimist let me tell you. The
wing body is undoubtedly the Tenn
e of God and the human intellect :
not of the animal-intelligence, but : :
e fruit of eternal wisdom Let us
axe man in our own image after our
vn likeness. 1t is the spiritual en- :
,wment of man and man only. We
e on the threshold of wonderful u
-olution, more so even than the =
orld has ever known before.
The first knives were used in En- o
and in 1859.
The present population OF Rio de J.
metro is 100000. =