The herald., 1897-11-21
DEADLY GERMS
How DR.. ThOs. Powell Has
Swallowed Them
BAClLLl IN HIS SYSTEM
HE LAUGHS AT THE THEORY OF
CONTAGION
Gives to the World the Story of His
Ten Years Defiance of the
Death-Dealing Bacilli
HE LAUGHS AT THE THEORY OF
CONTRACTION

Men have done strange things and
taken desperate chances in the inter-
ests of science, but none has been strang-
er or more desperate that the act of DR..
Thomas Powell, physician who about
a year ago took up his residence in this
city, and who has actually taken into his
system during the past ten years the
germs of the deadliest diseases for the
specific purpose of shattering the time
honored theories regarding the trans
mission of contagious complaints from
one person to another. Incredible as
it may seen, DR.. Powell has not only
survived the desperate experiments that
he has undertaken, but has never shown
the slightest signs of any i'll effects re-
sulting from them. The evidence regard
ing the truth of his claim is conclusive.
His own written statements are backed
up by the testimony of well-known ply
sicians in whose presence DR.. Powell
has taken the germs into his system dur
ing experiments that he has been secret
ly making during the past ten years.
Dr. Powell has decided that the time
has come for giving to the world the re-
suit of his experiments, which he claims
have been a complete and unqualified
success. Here is the doctors statement
of the result of his defiance of the power
of germs:
Before going into the details of my
experiments with the germs of Nlrulent
diseases, ] want to preface my state
ments with the explanation that | do
not declare the germs to be harmless in
all cases. What ] do say is that per-
son to whom the germs of a particular
disease are likely to prove dangerous
must have d predisposition towards
that particular disease, such predsposi-
tion being either hereditory or acquired.
Given man or woman with no such
predispositon, and l claim that the
deadlieSt germs are poWerlesS to harm
them. They can enter the sick chamber
without fear of contracting disease. or
even do as have done, take the living
germ into their system and suffer no
harm. My experiments have proved the
truth of my theory.
II claim that disease germs are utter
ly incapable of successfully assailing the
tissues of the living body that they are
the results and not the cause of dis
ease; that they are not in the least in
imical to the life or health of the body;
that ,on the contrary, it is their peculiar
function to rescue the living organism,
whether of man or beast, from impend
ing injury or destruction. They accom- |
plish this by bringing about the decom
position of that obstructing matter
which constitutes predisposition to dis
ease, and cause it to be passed out by
the blood
For ten years I have worked on this
theory, and the results achieved l now
give to the world. l determined in. the
first place to experiment by inoculat-
ing, not an animal whose hold upon life
is exceedingly feeble, as is that Of the
rabbit or guinea pig, but the human
body. made the experiments upon my
self, then upon members Of my own FAM
lily. and lastly upon such patients as
were within the range of safe expert
mentation. l inoculated myself with
the most virulent typhoid baclli OBJ
tainable, having first eradicated from