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A Wonderful Theory That Concerns the
Welfare, Happiness and Life
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A Wonderful Theory That Concerns the
Welfare, Happiness and Life
of Everyone.
II! his quiet and coy 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 glancing toward her
husband, she asked, at a 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 thar 1 can."
Accordingly his wife opened the book at
the word named and read: Germ Theory
Of DiseaselA theory advanced BY the
ablest and best investigators and scientists
OF the times. 1t supposes the surface of
the earth, the air n water to be inhabited
to a greater or less extent with a peculiar
growth of the lowest form of fungi-com.
monty termed bacteria, whose power of re-
SO great that a single germ will increase to
fifteen million in t~wenty-four hours time,
and unchecked in its increase would grow
to a 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 cir filtered through cotton-batting in
numerous layers. A single drop of water
containing a germ, put into water boiled,
filtered and thus freed from bacteria, will
grow murky in a day or two from the de-
velopment OF new germs. When it is con-
sidered that it requires about forty billion
tosweigh one grain, some remote idea can
be had of the capacity of germ reproduc-
ton. Prof. John Tyndall, in a late work,
deliberately treats Of the influence of germs
in the propagation of disease, and charges
upon this cause the inception and devel-
opmens Of very many of the ailments most
injurious to nal Prof. Pasteur, an emil
nent French savant, has carried his origin
al 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 theselare essentially and actually germ
system through the lungs, the stomach n
possibly the skin, but through the lungs
chiefly. Once in the system, they begin to
develop, poisoning the blood, invading the
nerve c%enters, disturbing the functional
activity of the great organs of the body,
vital processes. They are the cause of
~fevers, rheumatism, Bright's disease of the
kidneys, pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver
disease, d%iphtheria and many other all
ments. Lately Prof. Koch, a famous Ger.
man physician, has proved that consump-
ton of the lungs is due to this cause.-the
presence of a peculiar germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic and the system all aglow
with life and energy, the germs seem to de-
velop poorly, if at all. But with weakened
nerves., poor digestion or malassimilation
of food or a lowering of vitality from any
cause, a change ensues, and in this impov-
orsclo1 onI x,ao1yoroIH ,,:1 <ho roo,,, E,,I~
a genial home and develops until symp-
toms of disease are distinctly manifested.
This is seen in the everyday experience Of
all. The healthy man resis;s the influences
around him and does not a cold, while
those whose systems ave become weak
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. 1t is
plain therefore hat it is only by fortifying
the weak portions of the body that the
from the system. But this has proved al
most an impossibility heretofore, and it
has been the study OF physicians for years
how best to accomplish it. Within the past
few years, however, a preparationha has been
attracting great attention, not only
throughout the entire land, but among the
medical profession and scientists general
ly, 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 the
germs of disease as Warmers Safe Cure.
This article is unquestionably the best and
most efficient that has ever beendiscovered
for this purpose, and
"John, say, John! does the encyclopedia
| advertise Warmers Safe Cure?"
81 should not wonder, dear, it's a grand
remedy, and that pamphlet we receivedthe
other day stated that DIR. Gum, of the
United States Medical College Endorsed it.
At all events the wonderful cures it is &C.
complishing 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 sys-
tenn in a condition to kill these germs be-
fore they obtain q hold upon the body, and
undermine the life.