The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-18
THE NEW WORLD MORAL.

When the germ theory was first
talked about people began to live in
fear of these infinitesmal organisms
and the public was Immediately offered
"germicides" and germ destroying
medicines as a protection. But it has
been shown that it is impossible to
evade the germ. 1t is everywhere; in
the air, the water, the soil. 1t is in the
food we eat, the books we read, the
money with which we buy and sell.
Bacteria exist everywhere" says a
scientific writer, except where the
temperature is above that of boiling
water But they are most abundant in
rich, fertile soil, in stagnant or pol
luted water, and in the air of large
cities. The more dangerous, disease
producing species, such as those which
cause cholera, typhoid fever, malaria,
meningitis, etc, are chiefly spread by
polluted water. Those species which
cause scarlet fever, diphthSria, tuber-
culosis, erysipelas, etc, are borne on
the air and in infected food material"
........ "Bacteriology shows that the
average grade of milk distributed to
consumers in large cities often contains
as high as eighty million germs to the
cubic inch"
What escape is there from the germ &?
There's no mountain top inaccessible
to it. A man locked up in steer' would
be unarmed against the germ. No
walls are high enough or thick enough
to shut it out. We eat and drink and
breathe, knowing to a certainty that
we are taking into the system germs
of foul and fatal diseases. But Nature
has safeguarded us from the germ by
giving it no power over those who do
not invite it's presence by physical
weakness. We can't keep the germ
out. We can keep it from making a
breeding place of our bodies.
How?
BY keeping up the physical strength
by keeping the blood pure and plenti-
ful. In a protracted epidemic of dis
ease, nurses and doctors rarely fall
victims until the epidemic is near its
close. Then, often, they are stricken.
They have weakened themselves with
work. Thy have had insufficient sleep.
They have eaten irregularly. Anxiety
and excitement have injuriously af-
fected the digestive and nutritive pro-
cesses and collapse comes.
It's the same in every ordinary case
OF disease as in the epidemic The
germ of tuberculosis may be received a
thousand times and cast out by the
vigorous body. Some day when the
failure of the digestive and nutritive
processes has lowered the vitality of
the body and impoverished the blood
supply, the germ finds weak spol
and,so to speak, builds Its nest there. >
SOME PLAIN FACTS.
There are thousands and tens of thou.
sands of men and women who have
been brought up from the lowest physi.
cal condition to the highest by DR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
From weak, miserable sufferers, enact.
ated, coughing, with bleeding of the
lungs even, they have been brought ur
TO vigorous, healthy life, and they tes.
tify that they never knew what life
was until now.
What is Golden Medical Discovery o
1t is medicine which cures diseases
of the stomach and organs of digestion
and nutrition.
But what has a medicine for the
stomach to do with diseased lungs, o,
heart, or liver?
Answer that question by another
What has the stomach itself to do witt
the lungs, the heart, the liver and al
the other organs?
Why it has to feed them, of course
And If they are not fed properly they
weaken, and it's the weakened condi.
tion of an organ which makes it posi-.
be for the germ to find lodgment in il
The stomach has everything to dc
with diseases of lungs. heart, liver OF
any other organ, and DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery has every.
thing to do with cures of diseased
lungs, diseased liver, diseased heart
diseased kidneys, etc, because it cures
through the stomach diseases which
have their origin in a diseased condi,
tion of the stomach and other organs
of digestion and nutrition.
ON THE WITNESS STAND
Every claim made for Discovery, Is
capable of overwhelming proof. 1t is
never claimed for this medicine that Il