Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-10-12
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory that COncerns
the Welfare, Happiness ana
Life OF Everyone.

In his quiet and cosy library at th'
close OF a busy day sat a gentleman ant
his wife, he absorbed In new book bu
she in the newspaper. Quickly glancine
toward her husband, she asked, at q
certain point in the article:
John, what is the germ theory %
The germ theory-well-yes Just
look In the encyclopedia under Germ,
that will explain it 30 much better than
l can"
Accordingly his wife opened the book at
the word named and read tierm Theory OF
Disease-a theory advanced by the best and
| ablest Investigators and scientists of the
times. II suppO6es the surface OF the earth,
the air and water 10 he inhabitated to a
greater or less extent with peculiar growth
Of the lowest form Of fungi-commonly term
ed bacteria, whose power of Reproduction,
under favorable conditions. is 50 great that a
single germ will increase to fifteen million In
Itwenty-four hours time, and unchecked in
Its increase would grow to mass Of eight
hundred tons, in three days time, If space
and food be furnished. There Is no condi,
tion under VIII ch 1t can be said to be absent,
unless 1t be from fire or air filtered through
| Icotton-batting In numerous layers. A single
! drop OF water containing germ, put into
| water boiled. filtered and thus freed from
bacteria, Will grow murky in day or tive
from the development Of new germs. When
1t Is considered that 1t requires about forty
billion to weigh one grain, some remote idea
can te had Of the capacity Of germ reproduc
ton Professor John Tyndall, in late
work, elahorately treats Of the influence of
germs In the propagation Of disease, and
charges upon this cause the Inception and
developmen ofvery many of the ailments
most Injurious to man. Professor Pasteur,
an eminent French savant, has carried his
original and beautiful experiments so far,
and from them deduced such practical re-
ul y, as very greatly to diminish the number
Of cases ofanthrax among sheppard chicken
cholera among fowls proving his theory
that these are essentiallyand actually germ
diseases. These germs are carried into the
system through the lungs, the stomach, and
possibly the skin, but through the lungs
chiefly. Once in the system they begin to
develop, poisoninlng the blood, invading the
nerve centers, disturbing the functional
activity Of the great organs OF the body and
inducing general impairment of the vital
processes. They are the cause Of fevers,
rheumatism, Bright's disease of the kid
neys, pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver dis
ease, diphtheriA and many other ailments
Lately Professor Koch, = famous German
mas proved that consumption Of
the lungs Is due TO this cause.-the presence
Of peculiar germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic, and the system all aglow with |
lite and energy, the germs seem to develop |
poorly, fatal. But with weakened nerves, |
poor digestion or malsssimilation Of food or |
lowering OF vitality from any cause. achange |
ensues and In this impoverished and weak
ened fluid the germ finds genial home and /
develops until systems of. disease are dis
tinctly manifested. This Is seen in the
every day experience of all. The healthy
man resi- is the influences around him and
does not take cold, while those whose sys-
ems have become weak from any cause
readily contract colds. This is on the same
tack al y weakened spot in the body, and fix
ing themselves upon 1t, begin their propaga-
tiOn II Is plain, therefore. that 1t Is only by
the weak portions Of the body that
the germs Of disease can be resisted and
driven from the system. But this has proved
almost an tmposslbility heretofore, and it has
been the study Of physicians for years how
best to accomplish 1t. Within the past few
years, however, u preparation has been at
tracting great attention, not only throughout /
the entire nd. but among the medical pro-
fession and scientists gamer ally, which 10 |
based upon this theory, and it may safely be |
said, no remedy has ever been found which |
can o successfully place the system in q
condition to resist the germs Of dis,ase as
Warmers Safe Cure. This article IL unques
tionably the best and most efficient that has
ever been discovered for this purpose.
and
John, say, John does the encyclopedia
advertise Warmers safe Cure ?"
81 should not wonder. dear, lisa grand
remedy. and that pamphlet we received the
other day stated that Dr. Gunn, of the Unit
ted States Medical College, endorsed It, At
all events the wonderful cures 1t Is accom-
plishing entitle 1t to be honorably noted
inOng the great discoveries Of the present
century"
However the facts above stated may be, the
ruth remains, that the germ theory Of dis
,ase is the correct one, ana that the great
'emedy mentioned is the only one which ha'
,ver been found that can put the system in
condition to kill these germs before they
,btan hold upon the body, and undermine
he life.