THE CHILD OF THE FUTURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2766, 5 April 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE CHILD OF THE FUTURE.

It is a dreadful point about these microbes that the only way to avoid having them in a virulent form is to have them in an artificial or attenuated form. The children of the future will not run through the present; gamut of infantile disease but they will piobably be subjected to inoculation with various microbes every few months. First, they will be vaccinated for small-pox; when they have recovered from that they will be taken to a Pasteur institute to have a mild form of rabies. Next, they will be given a dose of the comma bacilli to prevent cholera, and so on through the evergrowing series of disease microbes. Oh ! luckless child of the future 1 you will never be ill and never be well; your I health will be awfully monotonous'; you will never know the weariness of the first night of measles, when it was so nice to lie in mother's lap and feel her cool hand on your forehead ; you will never know the joys of convalescence, when oranges were numerous and everyone was kind to you because you were not well; and your end will be to die of debility. How glad we are that we live iu the present, with all its ups and downs of health, to lend variety to life and death .'—The Hospital.