Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Moses and Sanitation. [ARTICLE]

Moses and Sanitation.

There has been gathered a collection of facts to prove that the sanitary laws of Moses were not only on a line with the modern rules of hygiene, but in some eases in advance, of them. . The Jew, thousands of years? betore Christ, settling in a semitropical country, was forbidden to eat pork or shellfish, and milk was designated as a source of contagion. In ’hr Talmud a method of slaughtering animal's was prescribed Which is acknowledged, today in our markets as the most sanitary. Five thousand years before Koch gave to the world the results of his re.amri hes- tn’ b icteriology the Mosaic law pointed our the danger to man from tuberculosis in cattle, but did not forbid infected poultry as food. It was only a few years ago that German specialists discovered that fowl tuberculosis was harmless to man. The .Mosaic law also enforced the isolation of patients with contagious diseases and the burial of the dead outside all cities. These hints the gentile World did not fully accept until a century or two ago. The wise lawgiver prescribed not only fasting at certain periods of the year, but the removal of whole families in summer out to camps, where tor a time they could live close to nature. Many of the laws of Moses were prescriptions intended for the health of both mind and body.— Los Angeles Times.