The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-10-19
Forty Billion Germs.
WONDERFUL THEORY THAT CONCERNS
ruE WELFARE, HAPPINESS AND
tlTE OF EVERYONE.

LrE or EVERYONE.
In his quiet and cosy library at the
close OF busy day sat a gentleman und
his wife, he absorbed in new book
aud she in the newspaper Quickly
glaucing toward her husband, she askc !
alta 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 SO much better tn an
| can"
Accordingly his wife opened the
book at the word named and read ;
Germ Theory If Dsease--A theory
advanced by the ablest and best inves-
tigators aud scientists of the times. 1t
supposes the surface of the earth, the
air and water to be inhabited TO grea.
ter or less extent with peculiar growth
OF the lowest form of fungi--common
| ly termed bacteria, whose power of re-
production, under favorable conditions
is so great that single germ will in.
crease to fifteen million in tweuty-four
hours time, ,and unchecked in its increate
would grow u mass OF eight
hundred tons, in three days time, if
space aud food be furnished. THERE'S N,
condition under which i can he said to be
absent, unless it be from fire or air
filtered through cotton. batting in nu
merous layers. A single drop of water
containing germ, put into water
boiled filtered aud thus freed from
bacteria, will grow murky in day or
two from the development of new
germs. When it is considered that il
requires about forty billion germs to
weigh one grain, some remote idea can
DC had of the capacity of germ repro
duction. Professor John Tyndall, in
a late work, deliberately treats of the
influence of germs in the propagation
of disease aud charges upon this cause,
the inception aud development of
very many of the ailments most in
| furious TO man. Professor Pasteur,
an eminent French savant, has car
ried his original and beautiful expert
ments 50 far, and fiom them deduced
such practical results as very greatly to
diminish the number of cases of an
thrax among sheep and chicken chol-
era among fowls,--proving his theory
that these are essentially and actually
germ diseases. These germs are car
ried into the system through the lungs,
the stomach and possibly the skin, but
through tie lungs chiefly. Once in
the system, they begin to develop,
poisoning the blood, invading the
nerve centers, disturbing the functual
activity of the great organs of the
body and inducing general impair
ment of the vital processes. They are
the cause of fevers, rheumatism,
Bright's disease of the kidneys, pneu-
monia, blood poisoning, liver disease,
diphtheria and many other ailments.
Lately Professor Koch, famous Ger
man physician, has proved that con
sumption of the lungs is due to this
cause.-the presence of peculiar germ.
When the circulation is bounding,
the nerves elastic aud the system all
aglow with life and energy, the germs
seem TO develop poorly, if at all But
with weakened nerves, poor digestion
or malassimilation of food or a lower.
ing of vitality from any cause, a
| change ensues, and in this impoverish-
ed and weakened fluid the germ finds
genial home and develops until symp-
toms of disease are distinctly manifested.
This is seen in everyday experience of
all. The healthy man resists the in-
tluences around him and does not take
cold, while those whose systems
have become weak from any cause
readily contract colds. This is on
the same principle as the germ theory.
The germs attack any weakened spot
in the body, and fixing themselves
upon 1t, begin their propagation. 1t is
plain therefore that it is only by forti-
Tying the weak portions OF the body
that the germs of disease can be resist
ed and driven from the system But
this has proved almost an impossibility
heretofore, and it has been the study of
physicians for gears how best to ac
complish it. Within the past few
years, however, a preparation has been
attracting great attention, not only
throughout the entire land, but among
the medical profession and scientists
generally, which is based upon this
theory, and it may be safely said no
remedy has never been found which
can so successfully place the system in
a condition to resist the germs of dis
ease as Warmers Safe Cure. This ar
ticle is unquestionably the best and
most efficient that has ever been dis
covered for this purpose, and
"John, say, John does the encyclo-
pedia advertise Warmers Safe Cure ?"
Il should not wonder, dear, it's a
grand remedy, and that pamphlet we
received the other day stated that DR..
Gum, of the United States Medical
College endorsed it. At all events the
wonderful cures it is accomplishing en-.
title it to be honorably noted among
the great discoveries of the present
century"
| However the facts above stated may
be, the truth remains, that the germ
theory of disease is the correct one aud
that the great remedy mentioned is the
only one which has ever been found
that can put the system in condition
to kill these germs before they obtain a
hold upon the body, and undermine
the life