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food. And many a physician being more particular about his fees than the health of his patients, dares not lose his professional call but acceds to their entreaties and goes on prescribing medicines one after another along with chicken broth and meat-soup which, containing as they do, a great quantity or urine acid poison, only tend to increase the gravity of the patients' sick condition.
In other cases where the patient is a strict vegetarian and the attendant doctor a flesh-eater, the doctor invariably induces the patient to use beef-soup and port wine even against his wish. If, by chance or through some mysterious cause which still reamins unknown to the scientific world, the patient recovers his health, the doctor is congratulated - why he congratulates himself, on the success of his treatment and from that time forward he not only gains the confidence of other suffering people but even believes in his own professional skill to a degree that he makes it a point to extend without any hesitation the benefit of his clever prescription of meat-soup to his other patients also. But if, contrary to his expectations, the patient expires, which occurs in six or seven cases out of ten, he attributes it to the patient's low vitality or to some trivial mistakes committed either by the helpless man or by his relatives, he himself not knowing that his patient's death was brought about by the very beef-soup and egg-flip that he prescribed. And strangely enough in the course of a few days following the death of his victim, the doctor takes care to collect his fees from the relatives of the dead man. Such alas! is the doctor's profession and such the fate of those whoseek his help! And yet, what is the real cause of his death? May it not be the blood-poison augmented to an extent so as to affect the bodily functions by a frequent introduction of more poison in the shape of meat soup and wine into the life-fluid that had already been rendered impure by the disease? Even the lower carnivorous animals, when they are taken ill, abstain from flesh and fast for days together taking at intervals only herbs and roots until they are completely recovered. A careful observer of animal life can never fail to notice this instinctive act
