. Town and city. ore. This was so extraordinary that doctors and armyofficers all over the world were eager for an wanted to know what it was that kept hot, thirsty PREVENTABLE DISEASE 135 men from drinking typhoid microbes from polluted wellsand unclean streams as they marched ; also, why it wasthat hungry soldiers didnot eat half-ripe fruit andunwholesome food ontheir journey, and howit happened that whenthey reached a town theywere able to escape con-tagious disease from thehouses and the beds ofthose who had died fromsmallpox, scarlet fever,and the like. In answer to all t
. Town and city. ore. This was so extraordinary that doctors and armyofficers all over the world were eager for an wanted to know what it was that kept hot, thirsty PREVENTABLE DISEASE 135 men from drinking typhoid microbes from polluted wellsand unclean streams as they marched ; also, why it wasthat hungry soldiers didnot eat half-ripe fruit andunwholesome food ontheir journey, and howit happened that whenthey reached a town theywere able to escape con-tagious disease from thehouses and the beds ofthose who had died fromsmallpox, scarlet fever,and the like. In answer to all this theJapanese made no secretof what they did. Theyacknowledged that theyhad first learned aboutdisease microbes fromscientific men of othernations, and said that they had simply put their a Japanese soldier knowledge into practice. ^^ ^S^ts both man and microbe This was evidently the case. The government haddecided that instead of waiting for some epidemic toshow which water, or food, or town was safe and which. 136 TOWN AND CITY unsafe, it would find out the actual condition of thingsbefore the soldiers had any chance to risk their lives. Itclaimed that the best scheme was to fight the microbes,or at least to find out where they were and how tododge them, before the soldiers were allowed to fightthe Russians. That then was the secret of Japanese health andsuccess. To carry out the plan, instead of keeping all the doctorswith the army to cure the men after they were ill, somewere sent on ahead with the scouts. Doctors belong in the front, they said, not in therear. So they traveled in front and certainly found enoughto do; for, whenever they reached a town, every well,stream, or spring of water, though it was sparklingand cool and as clear as crystal, was examined withthe utmost care. Those Japanese scientists knew thatthirsty soldiers sometimes act as if they were willing toforget all they knew about water dangers and drinkalmost anything wet; while at the same time they als
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