Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-10-25
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A 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 q gentleman and
his wife, he absorbed in a new book and
she IN the newspaper. Quickly glancing
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 will explain it so much better than
| cam
Accordingly his wife opened the book
at the word named and read: Germ
Theory of Disease-A theory advanced
/ by the abIest and best investigators and
scientists Of the times. It supp0ses the
surface Of the earth. the air and water
TO be inhabited to a greater or less exteat
with peculiar growth Of the lowest
form of fungi-cOmmonly termed
! bacteria, whose power of reproduction,
! lnder favorable conditions, is so great
that q single germ will increase to fifteen
million in twenty four hours time, and
unchecked i'll its increase would grow to
/ u mass of eight hundred tons, III threG
days time, if space and food be furnished.
| There iSnO condition under which it can
/ te said to be absent, unless it .e from fire
or air filtered through cOttOn-batting
/ - numerous layers A single drop of
wstter containing a germ, put into water
! oOied, filtered and thus freed from bac
7eria, will grow mucky in a day or two
! rom the development OF new germs.
When it is considered that 1t requires
about forty million To weigh one grain,
! some remote idea cam X bad Of the Ca
pacity Of germ reproduction. Professor
John Tyndall, in a late work, elab0rately
rcats Of the influence of germs il the
propagation of disease and charges upon
mis- cause, the inception and develop
inent OF very many Of the ailments mo Il
| Injurious to man. Professor PaSteur. an
s2lEne4C French savant, has carried his
original and beautiful experiments s.
tar, 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-
yelop, 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 feyers, rheumatism, Bright's disease
OF the kidneys, pneumonia, blood poison
ing, liver disease, diphtheria and many
other ailments. Lately Professor Koch,
4 famous German physician, has proved
! that consumption Of the lungs is due to
this cause.-the presence of a peculiar
germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
neryes elastic and the system all aglew
with life and energy, the germs seem to
develop poorly, if as all. But with
weakened nerves, poor digestion or NAL
assimilation Of food or lowering of vi
Uality from any cause, q change ensues,
and III this impoverished and weakened
fluid the germ finds genial home and
| develops until symptoms of disease are
distinctly manifested. This is seen il
tha everyday experience Of all. The
! healthy man resisGs 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 it begin their propagation
! 1t is plain therefore that it is only by
! fortifying 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
sicians 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 upon this theory, and it may
| safely be said, no remedy has ever been
! found which can so successfully place
! the system in a condition to resist til.
| germs Of disease as Warmers Safe Cure.
This article is nquestionably the best
and most efficient that has ever been
discovered for this purpose, and
''John, say, John! does the encyclOpe-
| dia advertise Warmers Safe Cure?"
81 should not wonder, dear, it's q
grand remedy, and that pamphlet we
received the other day stated that Dr..
Gum, of the United States Medical Col
lcge endorsed it. At all events tae won
derful cures it is accomplishing entltle
it to be honorably noted among the great
discoveries of the present century"
Hswever 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 hold
upon the body, and undermine the life
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