National Republican., 1883-10-09
roRrY BILLION GERMS.
A wonderful Theory TINT Concerns tho
Welfare, Happiness and Lire OF Every

Welfare, Happiness and Life OF Every
one.
In his quiet and cosy library at the close of
a busy day sat gentleman and his wife, he
absorbed in q new book and she in the news
paper Quickly glancing toward her hus-
band she asked, at certain point in the
article:
"John, what is the germ theoryp
"The germ theory well-yes; just look in
the encyclopedia under Germ that will ex-
plain it so much better than 1 can"
Accordingly his wife opened tho 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.
Ii supposes the surface Of the earth the air,
and water to be inhabited to q greater or less
extent with peculiar growth of the lowest
form of fungi-commonly termed bacteria,
whose power of reproduction, under favorable
conditions, is so great that q single germ will
increase to fifteen million in twenty-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 fur
nished. There is no condition under which
it can be said to be absent, unless it be from
fire or dir filtered through cotton batting in
numerous layers. Asingle drop of water con-
tanning germ, put into water boiled,
filtered and thus freed from bacteria,
will grow murky in o day or two from the
development Of new germs. When it is con-
sidered that 1t requires about forty billion to
weigh one grainy some remote idea can be had
ofthe capacity of germ reproduction Professor
| John Tyndall, in late work. elaborately
| treats of the influence of germs in tho propa-
| cation of disease and charges upon this cause
| the inception and development of very many
of the ailments most injurious to man. Pro-
| fessor Pasteur, an eminent French savant has
| .Na
| so far, and from them deduced such practical
results as very greatly to diminish the num-
Der 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-
tenn they begin to develop, poisoning 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
kidneys pneumonia blood poisoning, liver
disease, diphtheria, and many other ailments.
Lately Prof. Koch, q famous German ply
sician, has proved that consumption of the
lungs is due to this cause.-The presence Of a
peculiar germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic, and tho system all aglow with
| life and energy, the germs seem to develop
poorly if at all. But withSweakened nerves
poor digestion or malassimilation Of food or q
lowering of vitality from any cause. change
ensues, and in this impoverished and weak
ened fluid the germ finds o genial home and
develops until symptoms of disease are dis
tinctly manifested. This is seen in the every
day experience of all. The healthy man re-
sists the influences around him and does not
take cold, while those whose systems have be-
come weak from any cause readily contract
colds. This is on the same principal as the
germ theory. The germs attack any weak
ened spot in the body, aud fixing themselves
upon it, begin their propagation. 1t is plain
therefore that it is only by fortifying the weak
ease can be resisted and driven from the
system. But this has proved almost an i'm
possibility heretofore and it has been the
study of physicians for years how best to &C
complish it. Within the past few years, how
ever, 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 safely be said no remedy
has ever been found which can SO success
fully place the system in n condition to resis
the germs of disease as Warmers Safe Cure
This article is unquestionably the best anC
most efficient that has ever been discoveret
for this purpose, and
"John, say, John does the encyclopedias
advertise Warmers Safe Cure"
"I should not wonder, dear, it's grand
remedy, and that pamphlet we received the
other dav stated that DIR. Gum, of the United
States Medical college, indorsed it. At al
events the wonderful cures it is accomplish
ing 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 o
disease is the correct one, and that the grea
remedy mentioned is the only one which ha
ever been found that can put the system in
condition to kill these germs before they OBJ
tain hold upon the body and undermine
the life.