East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-04-06
CORVALLIS PROFESSOR talks
ABOUT GOOD AND BAD GERMS

fruits are not to go to waste because
they cannot be used" declared the
scientist. Every year we now pro-
duce much more fruit than can be
used. This Is particularly true of
strawberries, which sometimes fail to
find market. The process of kill
ing the germs will make i possible
! to put the berries up in great guam
titles and Send them to any part OF
the world I'm a perfectly fresh condi-
ton
II believe / have discovered the
way in which the Egyptians embalm-
ed corpses," continued the professor,
warming to his subject. my en-
perIments have been on mice. / used
nothing more mysterious than mer-
curic chloride mixed with something
mice would eat The stuff found by
the mice in convenient places killed
them of course. They died just
where they happened to be when the
terrible pain from eating the poison
out stuff overcame them. But the
drug embalmed the bodies. There
was never any decomposition or odor.
The bodies simply dried up. Coupled
with the Egyptian scheme for keep
ing bodies away from the air and the
embalming would have been just as
effective as that of the savants in
Rameses' day.
81 believe the day is coming when
every disease is TO be conquered. Did
you know that no germ is primarily
bad germ, 1t is only when he's got
into the wrong pew, or missed his
calling, figuratively speaking, that
trouble comes. For instance, a gem
tleman Of color steps preciptatedly
and without regard for dignity from
a high fence and places his foot for
cibly on a long and rusty nail. In
process Of time tetanus or lock jaw
ensues. an the gentleman of color has
barely time to bewail the fact that
his appetite led him into evil ways,
before he is gathered to his fathers.
Bad GERMS Good Side.
bacillus is one Of the most valuable |
elements in the composition of garden |
soil Vegetables must have the aid /
of lockjaw germs before they can de- |
velop properly. If the gentleman of !
color had not got his foot out Of place |
or II the germ had not fastened itself |
on the nail, which, by the way. is one !
of his natural homes. since he aids I
in the decomposition of mineral sub
stances which is constantly going on f.
in the earth, there would never have /
been any untmely funeral for the
black man.
"Other disease germs are of the
same sort. We must simply teach /
them to keep their place. We must .
harness them into teams that will t.
to keep the lines tight over their
backs and to drive them correctly |
We must make a mans body less a |
for germs, good and |
bad, through educating him in the |
ways of sanitation and health. Men |
and women. too, must learn that it is !
fully as important, yes, more import
ant. to keep their bodies clean inside .
as well as outside, and to stop intro
ducing into the digestive tract the
things that constitute the most favor
able fields of growth for the germ.
"Why, in and about every one Of
us. there are millions of disease
germs, We don't contract the disease
because the germ does not find lodge
ment in our systems. When he gets
n foothold, then trouble comes
Professor Pernot has some several
billion of pets. To see them
he must use a magnsfying glass of
great power, but he finds them of
more fascinating interest. he says,
than milady does her poodle. Every
kind of germ that he has been able
to find the professor keeps herded in
yard-like earth beds with others of its
kind. His germs are of the kind that
produce all kinds of disease others
and there are many of them-are of
the kind that give flavor to butter or
cheese or beer.
The "pets" are the result of a coll
lection commenced IS years ago.
They have won gold medals at sever
Al expositions. Professor Pernot has
been with them so much that he al
most feels they know him, although
he limits his acquaintance with them
20 a knowledge of the different kinds /