The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-10-20
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory that Concerns the
Welfare, Happiness and Life of
Everyone,

Welfare, Happiness and Life of
Everyone.
In his quiet and cosy library at the close
of busy day sat a gentleman and his
wife, he absorbed in a new book and she
in the newspaper. Quickly glancing to-
ward her husband, she asked, at 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 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 greater or less extent
with peculiar growth of the lowest form
of fungi-commonly termed bacteria,
whose power of reproduction, under favor
able conditions, is so great that 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 furnished. There is
| no condition under which it can be said
to be absent, unless it be from fire or air
filtered through cotton batting in numer-
| Gus layers. 4 single drop Of water con-
| tanning a germ, put into water boiled,
| filtered and thus freed from bacteria, will
grow murky in day or two from the
| development of new germs. when it is
considered that it requires about forty
| billion to weigh one grain, some remote
| idea can be had of the capacity of germ
reproduction. Prof. John Tyndall, in a
late work, deliberately treats of the infu-
ence of germs in the propagation of dis
ease and charges upon this cause, the in
ception and development Of very many
of the ailments most injurious to man.
| Prof. Pasteur, an eminent French savant
has carried his original and beautiful ex-
periments 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 tho system
through the lungs, the stomach and pos
sibly the skin, but through the lungs
chiefly. Once in the system, they begin
to develop, poisoning the blood, invading
the nerve centers, disturbing the func-
tional 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 poison
ing, liver disease, diphtheria and many
other ailments. Lately Pr ofessor Koch,
a famous German physician, has proved
that consumption of the lungs is due to
this cause.-the presence of peculiar
germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic and the system all aglow
with life and energy, the germs seem to
develop poorly, if at all. But with weak
ened nerves, poor digestion or mal-assim-
ilation of food or lowering of vitality
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 re-
sists the influences around him and does
not take cold, while those whose systems
have become weak from any cause readi-
| " contract colds. This is on the same
principle as the germ theory. The germs
attaci, any weakened spot in the body,
and fixing themselves upon it, begin their
propagation. It is plain therefore that it
is only By fortifying the weak POI tions of
the body that the germs of disease can
be resisted and driven from the system.
But this has proved almost an impossi-
| biIity heretofore, and iU has been the
study of physicians for years how best to
accomplish it. Within the past few years,
| however, preparation has been attract
irg great attention, not only, throughout
the entire lard, 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 condition to resist the germs
of disease as Warmers Safe Cure. This
article is unquestionably the best and
most efficient that has ever been discov-
cred for this purpose, and
"John, say, John. does The encyclope-
dia advertise Warmers Safe Cure?"
81 should not wonder, dear, it's grand
remedy, and that pamphlet We received
the other day stated that DR.. Gum, of
the United States Medical College, en-
dorsed it. At all events the wonderful
cures it is accomplishing entitle it to be
honorably noted among the great discov-
cries Of the present century,"
| However the facts above stated may
be. the truth remains, that the germ the
DRY of disease is the correct one and that
the great remedy maintained is the only
one which has ever been found that can
nat the syntem in a condition to kill these
-erns before they obtain hold upon the
body. ate undermine the life.