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Show I He Says the Effort to Prevent Disease !s Big Work KanEa.s City, Mo., March 10. Asserting As-serting his belief that 'one of tho greatest functions Jn niedlral srlence Is to present rather than to cure disease," di-sease," Dr. 11. W. Wiley, chief ol I ho bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agriculture, ad drerserl a nifetlDg of rbe laekson County Medlcol society hero Jast night. . ' I am in faor of teaching mankind how to avoid infectious diseases," said Dr. Wiley. "ThU leaching." he! tfald, "should begin at the si an of life and 6hou)d especially be applied during dur-ing infancy." He characterized the question of nutrition at this staje as of the greatest great-est Importance j "Milk Is the best food in the -world for Infanta and children," continued the phyfician, "If you are certain tho milk Is pure, do not have it pasteurized. pasteuriz-ed. Unpasteurized milk Is much more nourishing A few ?e;ms will not kill i a healthy Infant It. Is only the mass of microbes absorbed by feed in unhealthy, un-healthy, fetid atmospheres that are deadly to tho child." Dr. George Zellar, of the Peoria Stare Hospital for the Insune, also1 addressed tho meeting, his subject lo- I Ing "Occupations for the Insane as a ! Moans of Cure." - j |