Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-10-24
BUTLER CITIZEN
MSCELLANEOUS.
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory that Con-
Germs the Welfare, Happiness
and Life of Everyone.

and Life OF Everyone.
In his quiet and cosy library at the
close of busy day sat gentleman
and his wife, he absorbed in a new
book and she in newspaper. Quick
iy glancing at her husband, she asked,
at q 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 inves-
tigators and scientists of the times. 1t
supposes the surface of the earth, the
air and water to be inhabited to a
greater or less extent with q peculiar
growth of the lowest form of fungi
commonly termed bacteria, whose
power of reproduction, under tavora-
BILE condition, is so great that single
germ will increase to fifteen million
in twenty-four hoars' time, and un-
checked in it's increase would grow to
a mass of eight hundred tons, in three
DAYS time, if space and food be furnish
ed. There is no condition under which
it can he said to be absent, unless it be
from fire or air filtered through cotton
batting in numerous layers. A single
drop of water containing 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 re-
production. Professor John Tyndall,
in late work, elaborately treats of the
influence of germs in the propagation
of disease and charges upon this cause,
the inception and development of very
many of the ailments most Injurious to
man. Professor Pastuer, an eminent
French savant, has carried his original
and beautiful experiments 80 far, and
from them deduced such practical re-
suits as very greatly to diminish the
cases of anthrax among sheep and
chicken cholera among fowls,-prov-
ing his theory that these are essential
ly 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 develop, poisoning the
blood, invading the nerve centres, dis
turbing the functional activity of the
great organs Of the body and inducing
a general impairment of the vital pro-
cesses. They are the cause of fevers,
rheumatism, Bright's disease of tho
kidneys, pneumonia, blood poisoning,
liver disease, diphtheria, and many
other ailments. Lately Professor
Koch, 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 nerves elastic and the system all
aglow with life and energy, the germs
seem to develop poorly, if at all. But
with weakened nerves, poor digestion
or malassimilation of food or a lower
ing of vitality from any cause, a change
ensues, and in this impoverished and
and weakened fluid the germ finds
genial home and develops until symp-
toms of disease are distinctly manifest
ed. This is seen in the everyday ex-
perience of ALL The healthy man re-
sists tho influence around him and
does not take cold, while those whose
systems have become weak from any
cause readily contracts colds. This is
on the same principle as the germ
theory. The germs attack any weak
spot in the body, and fixing themselves
upon it, begin their propagation. 1t is
plain therefore that it is only by forti
tying the weak portions of the body
that the germs of disease can be re-
sisted and driver from the system
But this has proved almost an impossi-
hility heretofore, and it has been the
study of physicians for years how best
TO accomplish it. Within the past
few years, however, 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 successfully place the
system in condition to resist the
germ of disease as Warmers Safe Cure,
This article is unquestionably the
best and most efficient that has ever
been discovered for this purpose, and
John, say, John! does the encyclo-
pedia advertise Warmers Safe Cure?n
IL shouldn't wonder, dear, it's
great remedy, and the pamphlet We re-
ceived the other day stated that Dr.
Gum, OF the United States Medical
College endorsed it. At all events the
wonderful cures it is accomplishing
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 system in condition
to kill these germs before they obtain
hold upon the body, and undermine
the life.
Sad irons-hand-cuffs.