Connecticut western news., 1883-12-05
FORTY BILLION GERMS
A Wonderful Theory that Concerns the Welfare, Happiness and Life
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 In his quiet and coZy library at tho close of busy day sat a gentleman and his wife, he absorbed in a rev book and she in the news paper. Quickly glancing toward her husa band, she asked, at certain point in the ar ticle,
 ".John, what is the germ theory"
 "Ihe germ theory-wel-yes; just look Ill the encycloc @ lia under Germ,' that will OK plain it so much better than can:
 Accordingly his wife opened tn, book at the word na med, and rea1 Germ Theory of Disease-a theory advanced by the ablest and best investigators and scientists of the times. It suppose the surface of the earth. the air and water to be inhabited to greater or less extent with peculiar growth or lhe lowest form of fungi--commonly termed bacteria, whose power of reproduction, under favorable conditions, is so great that single germ will increase to fifteen million m twenty-four hours time, and unchecked m its increase would grow to mass Of elghe hundred tons in three days time, if sE ace ana food be furnished. There is no condit on under which it can be said to be abs mt, un- less it be from fire or air filtered through cotton batting in numerous layers. A single drop of water containing germ, ut into water boiled, filtered and thus freed from bacteria, will grow murky in day or two from the development of new germs. When 1t is considered that it requires about forty billion to weigh one grain, some remote lIea can Ee had of the capacity of germ repro duction. Professor Johl Tyndall, in a late work, elaborately 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 fasteur, | 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 1 cholera among fowls,-proving his theory that these are essentially and actually germ 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 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 Professor Koch, famous German physician, | has proved that consumption of the lungs is due to this cause.-the presence of peculiar germ.
 " hen 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 digest on or mal assimilation of food or a lowering of vitality from any cause, change ensues, and in this impoverished and weaken ed fluid the germ finds genial horne ano develops until symptoms of disease are dis | tinctly manifested. This is seen ill the every day experience of all. The healthy man resist' the influences around him and does not take cold, while those whose systems have become weak from any cause re dily cont. a t colds This is on the ia ne principle as the germ theory. The germs attack any weakened spot in the body, and fixing themselves upo1 | it. begin their proD cation 1t is plain there fore that it is only by fortifying the veal portions of the body that the germs of dis ease can be resisted and driven from tn, system But this has proved almost an i'm possibility heretofore, and it has been tn study of phys ciaas for " ars how best to ac complish it. Within the past few ye1rs how ever, prepare tion has been attra cting grea attention, not only throughout the entir land, but among the medical profession an scienti ts generally, which is based upon thi theory, and it may safely be said, nc remed has ever been found which can so succe rull place the system in condition to resist tn germs of disease as Warmers Safe Cure. 1hi article is unquest.onably the best and mos efficient that has ever been discovered for thi | purpose, and
 "John, say, John does the encyclopedi advertise Warmers Safe Curef'
 "1 should not wonder, dear; it's a grau remedy, and that pamphlet we received th other oay stated that Dr. Gum, of the Unite States Medical college, indorsed it. At a events the wonderful curesit is accomplishin entitle it to be honorably noted among th great discoveries of the present century,"
 However the facts above stated may be, til truth remains that the germ theory of disea is the correct one, and that the great remed mentioned is the only one which has eve been found that an put the system in col dition to kiu these germs before they obtli a hold upon the body, and undermine u life