The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-10-27
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory that Concerns
The Welfare. Happiness and Life OF
EVerVanR.


The Welfare. Happiness and Life OF
Everyone.
In his quiet and cosy library at the close Of a
busy day sat a gentleman ana his wife, he alb
sorbed in new book aud she in the newspaper.
Quickly ganclng toward her husband, she
asked, at certain point III the article:
John, what is the &c m theory?"
The germ theOry-weli-yes lust look II,
the encyclopedia under Germ. that will ex-
plain 1t so much better than | can"
Accordingly his wife opened the book at the
word named and read: Germ Theory of Dis
| ease-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 greater orr less ex-
tent with peculiar growth of the lowest form
| OF Tungi-commonly termed bacteria, whose
power of reproduction, under favorable condi-
tlons, Is so great that a single germ will in
crease to fifteen million in twenty-fouI hours
Tune, and unchecked in its increase would grow
10 mass OF eight hundred tons, IN three DAYS
time, If space and food be furnished. There
Is no condition under which it can be said to be
absent, unless 1t be from fire or ar filtered
through cott0u-battiug in numerous LAYERS. A
sI'lgle crop or water containing a germ, put
INTO water BOILED, filtered and thus freed from
bacteria, Will grow murky in a day or two from
the development of new germs. When it is
considered that 1t requires sabout forty billion
TO weigh one grain, some remote idea can be
nad OF the capacity of germ reproduction. Pro
1essOr John 1yndall. In late work. elabOratev
treats of the influence of germs ia the propaga.
ton of disease and charges upon this cause the
inception and development of very manv 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 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 essentially 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 sys-
TEN, they begin to develop, poisoning the
blood, invading the nerve centers, disturbing
the functional activity Of the great organs Of
the body and inducing generalimpairmeut of
the vital processes. They are the cause of
fevers rheumatism, Brights disease of the kid
neys, pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver dis
ease, dlphtherla and MANY other ailments
Lately Professor Koch, a famous German ply
slclan, has proved that consumption of the
lungs Is due 10 this cause.-The presence of a
peculiar germ.
When he circulation is bounding, the nerves
elastic and the system all aglow with life and
energy, the germs seem 10 develop poorly. if at
al. But with weakened nerves, poor diges-
sion, or mal-asslmllatiO1 of food or a lowering
OF vitality from any cause, a change ensues,
and IN this impoverished and weakened fluid
the germ finds genial home and develops I'M
II! symptoms of disease are distinctly mani
tested. This Is seen in the everyday expert
ence of all. The healthy man resists the infin-
ences around him and does not f. Ike 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 it. begin their
propagation. it IS plain therefore that it is
only by fortlfYing the weak portions of the
body that the germs of disease can be resist
ed, aid driven from the system But this has
proved almost an impossbiiity heretofore. and
1t has been the study of physicians for years
how best to accomplish it. Witt in the past
few years, however, preparation has been at
tracing great attention, not only throughout
the entire land, but among the medical profess
sion and scientists generally, which is based
upon this theory, and 1t NAV safely be said, no
remedy has ever been found which can so sue
cessfully place the system in q condition to re
sist tie 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 encvclopedia sd
vertise Warmers Safe Cure 2"
Il should not wonder, dear. its 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
eutit it to be honOrsbly noted among the
great discoveries of the present century"
However the facts above stated NAV be, the
truth remains, that tue germ theory of disease
is the correct one and that the great remedy
mentioned is the oulysone which has ever been
found that can put the system in a conduit u
TO xiii these germs before they obtain hold
upon the BODY, and undermine the life