19^th We took the parting hand with Br & Sister Moulton
[FIGURE] who had treated us kindly And we rode to Gray
and spent the night 50 m

During the evening we accompanied Rhoda Foss
to a lecture deliverd at the Teachers Institute the
subject was the oxigen of the human system. He said it was
the oxigen that entered the system that sustained life that we
recieved so much into our bodies each day and that we discha-
rged so much each day we flung of so much oxigen at each
resperation He said the oxigen would meet with the Hydragen
& carbon & create a heat or cholorie & this was the cause of
the heat in man the same as it was with a burning lamp
and if oxigen should scease to be created in man he would
scease to breath or live, He explained the difference in Quantity
of the oxigen created from vegitables or animal food that
animal food produced far more oxigen than vegitable, and
that the body discharged oxigen much faster in cold cou-
ntries than in hot, & in cold weather than in warm and
advised that people subsist more upon animal food in cold
weather than in hot. He had tried it by going without animal food
for years and became convinced that it was injurious to him He
injoyed much better health since he made use of animal food
in cold weather fat meat produces oxigen in far greater
quantities than lean and believes this is one reason of the prevelant
fevers in Hot Countrys & seasons that oxigen is created so
much faster than it discharges that it breaks the law of nature
and the man has to suffer in consequence of it oxigen is also reci-
eved & discharged through the pores of the skin and hence their
was great propriety in keeping the body clean & washing often
He urged the necessity & importance of having all dwelling
houses school & meeting houses & all sleeping rooms well
ventilated our sleeping ho rooms should be the largest rooms in
the house instead of small bedrooms & them closed without
any fresh air, go into a crouded room that is not well
ventilated and the air you breath is poison to the Human
System. Mothers should be careful to se to their children
that they do not lie with their heads coverd up that they
need not breath the air under cover. the faster a person
respires or any creature the oftener he discharges oxigen &
the oftener he needs food & the shorter would be his life
without it A bird can ownly live 3 days without food a man
9 or 12 a child not as long while some anaimals or reptiles
will live three months without it A child needs food much
oftener than a man it respires oftener discharges oxigen ofte-
ner which needs replenishing oftener if a person lives without
food the elements pray upon the body itself to creates oxigen
the flesh waste away & the persons dies, it is the fat of the
bear, the ground hog, & all animals that burrow up for months
without eating that feeds the oxigen & keeps life in the ani-
mal yet when he comes out he is poor. He also recommended
that we put on warm clothing when we begin to feel the
chill of Autum & not wait unill we feel the blast of winter