IS IT ALL IMAGINARY?
FIRE AND WATER does not believe in giving a hearing on a question to only one side. While it has repeatedly expressed its opinion that typhoids and other similar diseases are due to contaminated drinking water, it is only fair to admit that there is another side to the discussion. Here is a brief extract from an article in the current Metaphysical Magazine, which sums up the opposite side very concisely;
"The attacks on drinking water are equally destitute of foundation. The [only way to ascertain the effects of water upon the human system is by drinking. Analysis and mictoscopic examination are alike uncertain. Casal, writing for the British Medical Journal, declared that in the present state of medical knowledge no chemical will justify the assertion that a water is likely to cause a particular disease, and that no process of examination whatever will prove the noxious character of a water. Pelley, in his Manual, further affirms that with our present knowledge, a satisfactory microscopic examination is hardly possible, even for one thoroughly skilled in such investigation, and that the question of the purity or impurity of a water cannot be satisfactorily settled by bacteriological tests alone.
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