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eaten less than during her year of active life. She thinks and talks continuously of eating, and of things good to eat; she frequently munches apples, etc, between meals; and she "lunches" at all hours, and often at bed time. And for some years she has suffered intensely with rheumatism, asthma, and frequently recurring attacks of the grippe.
It is impossible to make her believe that all her sufferings are caused by the terrible struggle her physical organism is compelled to make to rid itself of the filth with which she is continually gorging it; but such is actually the case. And the same is true of nearly all old people who suffer from the so-called infirmities of age. It has been said that when a man "retires" nature usually retires him permanently in a very short time; but the fact is that he usually destroys himself by continuing to eat as if he were still at work. Professor Metchnikoff discovered that old age is caused by germ which originates in putrefying matter in the intestinal tract; and he hit on the marvelously scientific scheme of drinking sour milk to kill the bad germs, as the sour milk germ is an enemy to the old-age germ. And by the way, what has become of the professor's great "discovery" that drinking plenty of sour milk would make us all immortal in body! Like most of the medical discoveries it seems to have fallen flat. It is about time for some other
