The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-08-13
A Short Talk on Germs
and the Cause of Disease

vious weakness of tissue for the germ
to live and multiply. What causes
this previous weakness of tissue? W.
all know that the brain and nervous
system control the functions of al
of the organs and tissues of the body
Every tissue cell In the body has {
nerve supply to and from 1t. The
average size of tissue cell is one
three thousandth of an inch in diam
eter. Many of the cells do not have
a blood supply, but they all have 6
nerve supply. This we can prove
because a person cannot stick the
point of the finest needle into the
body but what it Is felt distinctly
Then If the nervous system is SO
| finely distributed and controls all the
functions of the body, wouldn't 1t be
reasonable to look to some derange-
ment of the nervous system for the
weakness of tissue or the cause oil
disease?
II there is a free and unhindered
supply of nerve force, or vital force,
as some choose to call 1t, then all OF
the tissue is in normal condition.
Now cut off a part of this nerve force
to any of the tissue or organs and
you will have the same effect as If
you would put pressure on hose
that had water running through 1t.
When pressure Is eXerted upon a
nerve It stops certain percentage Of
the nerve force that travels over that
particular nerve and the part to
which II is distributed suffers to that
extent.
Now let us look to the real cause
of these sOcalled contagious diseases.
We now know that when a person
has a normal nerve supply to all Or
gans and tissues of the body that
they won't have any disease. In
these acute contagious diseases there
is a diminished nerve supply to the
kidneys that puts them in a weak
ened condition. The kidneys being
the sewers of the body and the nat
ural channel for all pOisons to be
thrown out, cannot keep the body
free from the toxins that are pro-
duced by the natural metabolic proc
esses that are going on in the body,
consequently a certain amount OF
these toxins remain in the system.
These then have to be taken care of
by the skin, which is the next eXcre-
tory organ in line to the kidneys.
If a person drinks some impure
water, or eats some impure food, or
breathes some air that is heavily
laden with deleterious gases the kid
neys cannot take care of the poisons
and throw them out through the nat
ural channels. They are then held
up in the body and pass through
the whole system. Nature, realizing
that these are harmful to the sys-
TEN, sets up chemical process to
destroy them; this gives the excess
sive heat called fever. At the same
time the skin takes up the work and
throws out great quantities of these
polsons this is what produces the
eruptions, such as are found in small
pox, typhoid, scarlet fever and other
diseases.
The physicians say that one at
tack Of smallpox and some other dis
eases will make a person immune
from future attacks. This is true to
certain extent, but they haven't
offered us any reason why 1t is true.
We find that in a majority of cases
one attack of one Of these diseases
will keep the person immune. 1t is
for this reason: When a person has
an attack of one of these diseases,
the system Is usually very thor
oughly cleaned of the polsons that
were in 1t by the destruction of the
fever process and by the elimination
through the skin. The pores of the
skin have been so thoroughly opened
that in the future, even though a
person does come In contact with the
same kind of poison in the same
quantities, 1t will be thrown out of
the system through these pores be-
fore 1t will have any deleterous eff
fects upon the system. But II per-
son comes in contact with the same
kind of poison in a greater quantity
than at the previous time 1t will pro- ,
duce the same symptoms and the per-
son will have another attack Of the
same disease.
The brain is the center OF all
power and sensation. All nerves orig |
mate in the brain and converge at |
Its base, forming the spinal cord, |
which passes out of the skull through |
a hole called the foramen magnum.
The spinal cord passes down through |
the spinal column and from either
side between each pair Of vertebrae
there are nerve trunks given off.
These nerve trunks are thirty-one in
and send filaments to all or
gans and tissues in the body. Ac-
cording to standard works on anat-
omy each of these trunk nerves con-
tain over two millions of nerve fila
ments; therefore, the severity of the
affection depends upon the position
of the subluXated vertebrae and the
degree of pressure eXerted upon the
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