The Osceola times., 1883-10-27
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
n Wonderful Theory that Concerns the
Welfare, Happiness and tjfe of
Everyone.

IN MS quiet anu cosy iiDiufN NJ iht
close of busy day sat gentleman ant
his wife, he absorbed in new book and
she in the newspaper. Quickly glancing
toward her husband, she asked, at 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 il 50 much better than !
can"
Accordingly his wife opened the book
ut the word named and read; Germ
Theory of Disease-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 greater or less extent
with peculiar growth Of the lowest form
of fungi-commonly termed bacteria,
whose power of reproduction, under fa-
vorablo conditions, is so great that a sin
gle germ will increase to fifteen million
in twcDty-four hours' time, and uncheck-
ed in its increase would grow to mass
OF eight hundred tons, in three days
| time, If space and food be furnished.
There If no condition under which il can
be said to be absent, unless il be from
fire or air filtered through cotton-batting
in numerous layers. A single drop of
water containing a germ, put into water
boiled, filtered and thus freed from bac-
terra, 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 ca
pacity Of germ reproduction. Professor
John Tyndall, in late work, deliberately
treats of the influence of germs in the
propagation of disease and charges upon
this cause, the inception and develop
ment OF very many 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 prac.
tical 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 es-
sentially and actually germ diseases.
These germs are carried into the 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
poisoning, liver disease diphtheria and
many other ailments. Lately Profess or
Koch, famous German physician, has
proved that consumption of the lungs is
due to this cause.-the presence of a pee
uliar 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 malassim-
ilation of food or lowering of vitality
from any cause, change ensues, and in
this impoverished and weakened fluid
the germ finds a genial home and devel-
ops until symptoms of disease are dis
tinctly manifested. This is seen in every
day experience of all. The healthy man
resists 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 weakened spot in
the body, and fixing themselves upon it,
begin their propagation. Ii 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 al
most an impossibility heretofore, and it
has been the study of physicians for
years how best to accomplish il. Within
the past few years, however, a prepara-
ton has been attracting great attention,
not only Throughout the entire land, but
among the medical profession and scien-
lists generally, which is based upon this
theory, and il may safely be said, no rem
edy has ever been found which can so
successfully place the system in con-
dition to resist the germs of disease as
Warmers Safe Cure. This article is un-
qnestlonably the best and most efficient
that has everbcen discovered for this pur-
pose, and
John, say, John! does the encyclopedia
advertise Warmers Safe Cure?"
81 should not wonder, dear, lisa grand
remedy, and that pamphlet we received
the other day stated that DIR. Gum, ofthe
United States Medical College endorsed
it. AT all events the wonderful cures il
is accomplishing cntitle il To he honor
ably 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 system in condition {, kill these
germs before they obtain hold upon the
body, and undermine the life.