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FORTY BILLION GERMS.
A Wonderful Theory that Concerns
the Welfare, Happiness and Life

tn6 IhuppIhOSD o..% -A-~
of Every one.
In his uuiet and coy library at the close OF
busy day sat gentleman and his wife he
absorbed In a new book and she In the news
paper. Quickly gllncing toward her. nus
band, she q sked, at certain point In the ar
tic!e,
"Iohn, what Is the germ theoryr
"The germ theory we'l-yes; just look IN
the encyclo ella under Germ, that will OK
plain il 30 much better than can
Accordingly his wife opened tha book az
the word named and read: Germ !neory OF
Disease-a theory advanced by the aDlest
and best Investigators and scientists OF the
times. II suppose the surface OF the erin.
the air AMI water 10 be inhabited to a gre alter
or less extent with peculiar growth OF the
lowest form of funyi-c1mmonly termed
bacteria, whose power OF reproduction, under
favorable conditions, Is so great that a single
germ will increase to fifteen million III
twenty-four hours time, and unchecked IN
its increase would grow to mass OF eight
hundred tons In three days time, If space ana
food be furnished There is no condition
under which II can be said TO BIO absont, UNI
less 1t be from fire or air filtered through
cotton batting In numerous layers. A single
drop Of water containing. germ, Iut into
water boiled, filtered and thus freed from
bacteria, will grow murky In day or two
from the development Of new germs. When
II Is considered that 1t requires about forty
billion 10 weigh one grain, some remote idea
can be had of the calacity Of germ repro
ductlon. Professor John Tyndall, 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 50 far,
and from them deiuced such practical results
as very greatly 10 diminish this number Of
cases Of anthrax among sheep and chicken
cholera among fowls, 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 conters, disturbing tho functional
activity of the great organs of the body and
inducing general impairment Of the vital
processes. They are the cause Of fevers,
rheumatism, Brights disease Of the kidneys,
pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver disease,
diphthcria and many other ailments Lately
Professor Koch, famous German physician,
has proved that consumption Of the lungs Is
due 10 this cause.-the presence OF O peculiar
germ.
When the circulation is bounding, the
nerves elastic and the system all aglow with
lie and energy, the germs seem to develop
| poorly, II at all. But with weakened nerves,
| poor digestion or nal assimilation of food or
lowering Of vitality from auy cause, O 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 1, seen in 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 reldily cont Il colds
This Is on the sane principle as the germ
theory. The germs attack any weakened
spot In the body, and fixing themselves upor
It, begin their prop CATION. 1t Is plain there
portions of the body that the germs of dis
case 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 physlca1s for y ars how best 10 ~
complish il. Within the past few We rs, how
ever, preparation has been attracting grea
attention, not only throughout the entir,
land, but among tho medical profession ant
1 scienti Is generally, which is based upon thi,
theory, and 1t may safely be said, nc remedy
las ever been found which can 50 succe. slully
place the system in condition IL resist M,
germs OF disease as Warmers Safe Cure Thi
article Is unquest.onably the best and mos
Efficient that has ever been discovered for tbi
purpose, and
John, say, John does the encyclopedil
advertise Warmers Safe Curef'
u should not wonder dear; It's gran,
remedy, and that pamphlet we received th
other LAY stated that Dir. Gum, of the Unite,
States Medical college, Endorsed it. At al
events the wonderful curesit is accomplishing
entltle 1t TO be bonorably noted among tn
great discoveries of the present century,
However the facts above stated may be, tn
truth remains that the germ theory Of diseag
mentioned is the only one which has eve
been found that can put the system In a cor
ditlon TO kill these germs before they obtail
a hold upon the body, and undermine th