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THE CONDITIONS OF HEALTH. 239
All narcotics, all stimulants, all drug poisons, all impuri
ties in food, or air, or about the person, affect the milk,
and the child who feeds upon it. Many a child is kept
drunk on tea, or tobacco, or whisky. The nurse drinks
her porter or whisky, and the baby grows stupid on
milk- punch, drawn from her bosom. And it is " such a
good child !"
" Nurses and sleeps
all the time." Our
papers denounce the milk of distillery -fed cows ; but
they have found nothing to say yet of distillery-fed
nurses. These are some of the ways in which children
are poisoned, killed outright, or made stupid drunkards.
What has the great, wise, philanthropic Medical Profes
sion done, for two thousand to remove
years,
these evils,
or the ignorance upon which they rest ? What has almost
two thousand years
of Christian preaching done for
purity of life, which is the basis of all true religion ?
Can the world, ought the world, to forgive its doctors
"
Father, forgive them, they know
and its priests ?
not what they do."
OF FOOD.
Natural food is a condition of health to every organ
ized being, A plant finds its appropriate nourishment
in the air, or draws it from the earth. We do not ex
pect a vegetable to flourish in an uncongenial soil, be
cause it is the soil that furnishes a portion of the matter
necessary to its growth. It is the same with animals.
Every one, from the smallest to the largest, is furnished
with its appropriate food by bountiful nature ; and every
animal but man eats in a natural state the food that na
ture intended. The superiority of man over all other
animals, is proved by the extent of his perversions. His