The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06

Almost every consumptive person tells
US that the first symptom of his trouble
was cough, caused by taking cold, fol-
lowed by discharge OF fermented matter.
This fermented matter is nothing but
masses of microbes-in fact all fermenta-
ton is caused by microbes. Sudden
changes of temperature in the human
body cause a rapid interruption in the
circulation of the blood, and that process
prepares seedbed and temperature neces-
sary for the development of microbes. AS
soon as the microbes enter the system the
blood becomes stagnant in the affected
parts, the coats of the stomach begin to
ferment, and the patient loses appetite,
color, flesh and weight from the excessive
expectoration. As water full of slime clogs
up small pipes, so blood filled with mi
crobes is retarded in its free circulation,
and when this takes place, but not before,
"tubercle bacilli'' find their proper seed
bed and the temperature congenial to
their propagation and existence, prepared
and aided by other microbes and in COM
pany with them they assist in DESTROYING
the lungs. This demonstrates that
''tubercle bacill2' do not cause consump-
ton, but merely accompany the disease.
We have never heard of healthy men and
women losing their lungs. The s'tubercle
bacilli" are entirely harmless to healthy
person.
Thousands of persons may be seen daily
on our streets with all the symptoms indi-
eating consumption. Although their
sputum be lively mass of microbes,
yet it does not reveal any trace of tubercle
until they cough, expectorate and waste
away. Finally their sputum becomes dis
colored and they spit blood, sign that
tubercles have at last found their proper
seedbed prepared, and, in company with
other microbes, inaugurate the disease
called consumption.
no Of -
What follows will show its cure.
The stomach and blood of a consump-
tive person are so full of fermentation and
gas, caused by the different kinds of
microbes, that the coats of the stomach
also ferment and that organ is unable to
digest food 1t ferments and the greater
part is rejected. There is constant waste.
but nc repair. So long as the patient can
not eat and digest his food he can never
build up or become well.
Knowing these facts, common sense
tells us that to cure consum ption or any
other disease (never mind about diagnosis,
name or symptom, the cause being always
the same) we must stop fermentation by
destroying all the microbes existing in the
stomach and blood. This can only be
done by the use of an antiseptic, which
must be harmless to the patient, so that it
can be used internally in large doses to
saturate the system for any length of time:
then Iermentatlon Will gradually cease,
the coats of the stomach become renewed,
the appetite return. and the patient again
digest his food, which, by the way, con
tains all the ingredients necessary to form
blood, flesh and color. BY the use of
Radam's Microbe Killer, which is a harm
less antiseptic, every form of disease is
durable, provided the patient has sufficient
vitality and substance left TO build up
again.
To isolate consumptives by putting them
into hospitals(as suggested by some physi-
clans) and letting them die there will not
improve the situation for the future In
rigorous and changeable climate people