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Show MEANT TO CONSERVE HEALTH Laws Laid Down by Moses Acknowledged Acknowl-edged to Bo Excellent Sanitary Regulations. Thoro has boon gathered a collection collec-tion ot facts to prove that tho sanitary laws ot Moses wero not only on a lino with tho modern rules of hyglono, but In soma cases In ndvanco of them. Tho Jow, thousands of years boforo Christ, sottllng in a soniltroplcal country, coun-try, was forbiddon to cat pork or slioll fish, and milk was doBlgnatod as a sourco of contagion. In tho Talmud a method ot slaughtering animals was prescribed which Is acknowledged today to-day In our markots as tho most sanitary. sani-tary. Flvo thousand years bofcro Koch gavo to tho world tho results of his researches re-searches lu bacteriology, tho Mosaic law pointed out tho danger to man from tuberculosis In cattlo, but did not forbid lufoctod poultry ns food. It was only a fow years ago that German specialists spe-cialists dlscovorod that fowl tuberculosis tubercu-losis was harmless to man. Tho Mosaic law also onforccd tho Isolation of patients with contagious diseases and tho burial of tho dead outsldo all cities. Theso hints tho Gontllo world did not fully nccopt until un-til a contury or two ago. Tbo wlso law-glvor proscribed not only fasting at cortatn periods of tho year, but tho romoral of wholo families fam-ilies in summer out to camps, whero for a timo they could Hvo closo to nature Many of tho laws of Mosos woro prescriptions Intended for tho health of both mind and body. |