The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-11-02
FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Tne"iy that Concerns
the welfare. Happiness and Life
of Every ono.

In his quiet and coy library AT Une ciOSe OF
a busy day sat gentleman aud his wife, he
absorbed in a new book and she ip,the news
paper. Quickly glancing toward her hus-
band, she asked at a certain point in the ar
ticle,
"John, what is the germ theory"
"The germ theory we'l-yes; just look in
the encyclopedia under Germ that will ex-
plain it so much better than l can
Accordingly his wife opened til, 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 a peculiar growth of the
lowest form of fungi-cOmmonly termed
bacteria, whose power of reproduction, unier
favorable 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 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. I'M
less it be from fire or air filtered through
cotton batting in numerous layers. a single
drop of water containing n GERM Tut 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 lea
can be had of the capacity of germ repro
duction. Professor John Tyndell in late
work, deliberately treats of the influence
Of germs in the propagation of disease and
charges upon this cause, the incept on and
development 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 practical results
as very greatly TO diminish the number of
cases of anthrax among sheep and chicken
cholera among fowlS,-proying 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 System, they begin to
develop, poisoning the blood, invading the
nerve centers, disturbing the functional
activity of the great organs of the body and
inducing a general impairment of the vital
processes. They are the cause of fevers,
rheumatism, Brght's disease of the 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 NAL assimilation of food or
lowering of vitality from any cause, change
ensues, and in this impoverished and weaken
ed fluid the germ finds 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 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 i'll the body, and fixing themselves upon
1t. begin their propagation. 1t is plain there
fore that IT is only by terrifying the weak
portions of the body that the germs of dis
ease can lie resisted and driven from the
system. But this has proved almost an i'm
possibility heretofore, aud it has been the
study of physicians for V, ars how best to ac-
compish it. Within the past few We lrs, how
ever, preparotio 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, nc remedy
has ever been found which can so successfully
place the system i'll condition to resist the
germs of disease as Warmers Safe Cure. This
article is inquest onably the best and most
efficient that has ever been discovered for this
purpose, and
John, say, John does the encycopedia
advertise Warmers Safe Cure"
Il should not wonder. dear: its a grand
remedy, and that pamphlet We receive. the
other cay 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 he, the
truth rema MS 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 an put the system in a con-
dltlon to kill these germs before they obtain
hold upon the body, and undermine the
life