Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-19


Z gernls. as far from all authorities
believe, why do the germ theorists
find these very identical germs in per-
sons giving no other evidence of be-
ing sick? And why do. they also in
sist that healthy body is perfectly
immune to infection? Thus say the
authorities:
1-Specifc germs cause specific dis
eases.
2-Specifc germs exist in persons
not diseased.
"a really healthy body is immune
TO infection.
Most people are naturally i'm
mune, most of the time at least. or the
race would vanish before the ubiqui-
tous mierobe.
| 1t seems fair question to ask which
one of these contradictory PROPOSE
lions affords the real basis for pre-
ventative treatment.
If Nature is not playing fast and
loose with us, a body that is healthy
must be immune. Why need the doc
tors waste time on the side issues?
Why will they not advise us to leave
drugs and distinctions for extreme
emergencies, keep clean inside and
out, LIVE RIGHT, even if we have to
| take the trouble to learn how? Of
course we must keep clean, but who
that has suffered just once in life
time with formaldehyde disinfection
would not rather take his chances
with the microbes than with weekly
| inhiction of the mierobe- killer2 But,
according TO the same authorities that
ask your money for disinfecting you. a
healthy body is its own killer!
Why not advise health culture, and
stop the worry that attends the illogi-
cal conclusions and advice of the
microphobists?
Germs are Natures scaVengers. Ii
we are taught how to keep clean, in
side and out, they will go to those who
furnish the necessary filth for their
propagation, and who have but to stop
building the conditions that make for
auto infection and the germs depart
again.
Natures plan of prevention thus APP
pears to differ from the doctors plan
in placing the emphasis upon right
living rather than upon disinfection
of the products of wrong living. In
other words, let the power of the press
be given on the side of Nature instead
of on the side of the germ theorist
Health is a thing of growth. of Gull
ture. 1t is not found on druggists
shelves. Health is too vital, too ener-
getie and expansive, too strenuous, for
any bottle to hold it. Health is not
held as a monopoly by any locality. 1t
cannot be cornered Health cannot be
bought, neither can it be obtained by
any occult process.-Anon.
The chronic invalid must grow out
of disease into health. Whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap.
In other words, disease is chiefly the
result of wrong habits of life. We
SOW the seeds of disease and reap
crops of sickness. juts as the farmer
sows grain and reaps a harvest of
wheat or corn. Wrong habits of life
are the seeds which develop into dis
ease. Right habits of life are the
seeds of health. y. II. Kellogg, NJ. ID.
There is NO disease that is not the
consequence of broken law; every pain
or ache. every bad feeling, every de-
parture from bodily health or mental
happiness, is caused not by germs"
nor by Providence" nor by ill-luck,
but by breaking the Laws of Nature.
There is but one cure-not by anti
toxins nor by prayers, nor by medi-
caments: STOP BREAKING THE
LAWi
For antitoxins, prayers, drugs can
not possibly cure, since neither the
one, nor the other. nor all together.
can teach people how to avoid break