Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-10-25
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
4 Wonderful Theory that Concerns
the Welfare. Happiness and
Life OF Everyone.

/ In his quiet and cosy library at the
close Of a busy day sat a gentleman and
his wife, he absorbed in a new book and
She in the newspaper. Quickly CHANGING
toward her husband. She asked. at a GER
tain point in the article,
John, what is the germ theory"
The germ theory well-yes; Just
/ look in the encyclopedia under Germ.
that viii explain it SO much better than
can
Accordingly his wife opened the book
at the word named and read Germ
Theory of Disease-A theory advanced
by the ablest and best investigators and
scientists of the times. 1t supposes the
surface Of the earth, the air and water
to be inhabited to a greater or less eXtest
with a peculiar growth of the lowest
form of fuCgi-commonly termed
, bacteria, whose power of reproduction.
under favorable conditions, is so great
that Il single germ will increase 10 fifteen
million in twenty four hours time, and
unchecked in It's increase would grow to
mass of eight hundred tons, in three
days time. ifsp3ce and food be furnished
There isno condition under which it can
be said TO be absent, unless it he from fire
or air filtered through cotton-batting
in numerous layers. a single drop Of
water containing germ, put into water
boiled, filtered and thus freed from bac-
terra, viii grow murky in day or two
from the development of new germs
When it is considered that it requires
about forty million TO weigh one grain,
some remote idea caW be had of the ca
pacity of germ reproduction. Professor
Iah ~ "a "a "a al p
treats of the influence Of germs in the
propagation of disease and charges upon
this cause, the inception and develop
ment OF very 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 practi-
cal results as very greatly to diminish the
number of cases of anthrax among sheep
and chicken cholera among fowls
proving his theory that these are essen
TALLY and 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 de-
velop, poisoning the blood, invading the
nerve centers, disturbing the functional
activity of the great organs of the body
and inducing a general impairment of
the vital processes. They are the cause
of fevers, rheumatism, Bright's disease
of the kidneys, pneumonia, blood poison
ing, liver disease, diphtheria and many
other ailments. Lately Professor Koch,
famous German physician, has proved
that consumption of the lungs is due to
this cause.-the presence of peculiar
germ.
When Che circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic and the system all agl0w
with life and energy, the germs seem to
develop poorly, if at all. But with
weakened nerves, poor digestion or NAL
assimilation of food or lowering of vi
taGty from any cause, a change ensues,
and in this impoverished and weakened
/ fluid the germ finds a genial home and
develops until symptoms of disease are
distinctly manifested. This is seen in
the everyday experience of all. The
healthy man resists the influences 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 weaken
ed spot in the body, and fixing them
selves upon il begin their propagation.
1t is plain therefore that it is only by
fortitying 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 impossibility here
tofore and it has been the study of ply
sicans for years how best to accom-
plish it. Within the past few years,
however, preparation has been attract
ing great attention, not only throughout
the entire land, but among the medical
profession and scientists generally which
is based uDon this theory, and il may
safely be said, no remedy has ever been
found which can so successfully place
the system in a condition to resist the
germs of disease as Warmers Safe Cure
This article is unquestionably the best
and most efficient that has ever been
discovered for this purpose, and
John, say, John! does the encyclope-
dia advertise Warmers Safe CureT
II 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 Col
lege endorsed it. AT all events the won
derful cures it is accomplishing entitle
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 and
that the great remedy mentioned is the
only one which has ever been found that
can put the. system in a condition TO kill
these germs before they obtain a hold
upon the body, and undermine the life.