Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1883 — WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. [ARTICLE]

WONDERFUL REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE.

Discovery es tao Moat Deadly Enemy «i Mankind—Tike Bacillus and Ita Rava*es. The scientific world has been greatly startled and agitated of late by the discovery with the microscope of the most dreadful enemy of mankind in the form of myriads of little death-dealing parasites The air we breathe and live in fa charged with these deadly little growths in proportion as it is infected from various noxious sources. Haring by recent experiments and research been shown to be the most fruitful cause of disease known, and the welfare and health of every individual depending so largely on the freedom from their destructive ravages, it is but natural that the reports of recent investigators in this field of scientific inquiry should be widelv read, and that every phase of these astounding discoveries should be subject to universal discussion. At first received with some suspicion they have at length been thoroughly proven, and are now receiving the unqualified indorsements of the leading scientific men throughout the world. But little else is talked of in the schools and clubs of science, and the medical anti scientific journals are crowded with the testimony that is being added corroborative of the value of the marvelous discovery which is pronounced the greatest advance in medical science of modern times. To L Pasteub, the eminent French scientist, who by his learned investigations has saved to France so many millions of dollars, is probably due the honor of first pointing out the power of these terrible germs. In recognition of his great service, the Government has recently voted him from the public treasury #IO,OOO, with which to continue his experiments. He has described several varieties of these parasites, some comparatively harmless, others extremely dangerous. One form he proved by a series of vaccinations and other conclusive experiments was the cause of death of many thousands of animals and herds of cattle* another the active agent in the death of fowls by cholera Acting upon the knowledge he had gained of the nature of these germs he pointed out a means of relief that speedily prevented a spread of the disease and ended their devastation. Tyndall, with the aid of other eminent English investigators, made a number of examinations of the floating particles in the atmosphere, and found numbers of living spores capable of producing disease. In dry and healthy localities, but few germs were found, and these of the harmless varieties, while in low, damp places, crowded houses, and unhealthy cities, the posionous germs were extremely numerous everywhere. Dr Rudolph Koch, of Wallstefn, Germany, a man whose work in connection with the organisms of contagious diseases has made him a recognized authority upon the subject, by exjperimenting after the methods of Villemin, has discovered and published an account of one of the most-dangerous varieties, to which it is proven more deaths are due than to any disease incident to the human race. He describes it as a simple cellular organism belonging to the same order as the bacteria. When dried, the germs may, without losing any vitality, endure great extremes of temperature. Being as fine and as light as dust, invisible to the naked eye, they may be blown any distance by the wind or carried upon the clothing or body. Like seeds, they may lie for months or years undisfcturbed upon the furniture, floor, carpets, curtains, walls, or in the bedding, and only requiring a proper degree of warmth, moisture and food to waken into life, develop and grow. They thrive and live in the blood, lymph, mucus and secretions of the human body. When the system is unhealthy or weak they attack the cells that make up the animal frame. Any albuminous fluid will furnish them with food for growth, and a single drop is sufficient to contain hundreds. Examined with microscopes of great power, which enlarge them so that they can be seen and studied, they have the appearance of minute rod-Uke bodies, having, when active, some power of motion. They bend in the middle like a bow and straighten with a jerk that sends them a few times their own length. At the temperature of the human body they are the most active. Their power of increase or reproduction is remarkably great One germ, in a few weeks’ time, under favorable conditions, will give rise to millions. The process is by simple growth and division. Cold des.roys or prevents their growth, and this is why refrigeration prevents decay of meats and other animal foods. Exposed to warmth these small organisms attack and eat up the albuminous tissues leaving a foul mass. The odors so common to this process are given off by these minute organisms, and Is about the only indication of their presence. This is the warning of nature and it is an instinct to avoid all such smells. The foul breath, bad odors of old sores, etc., leads men to avoid these germs in a great measure. The danger of their presence in the body can be imagined when their rapid increase is considered. A few germs may be readily absorbed into the system by breathing air containing them. They are thus drawn into the interior of the body through the long and narrow respiratory passages of the throat, chest and nose, which are lined with soft membrane and covered with sticky mucu". In this fluid they find ready lodgment and favorable conditions for development, increase and growth. The “cold” or catarrh, ozaena or chronic catarrh, hay fever, etc., are common manifestations of the effects of one of the least harmful of these germs or microzymes. In the discharges from the respiratory passages at such times thousands of the living animalculae are found. The fever, debility, pains “in the bones,” loss of appetite, etc., are indications of their depressing effects upon the vital organs It is from germs of slower development, however, that the greatest danger follows To the one most fully described by Koch is due more deaths than to any other known cause. According to the researches of Cutter, Flint and Dejebine over eight million people die every year from this cause alone. The annual deaths in France, England, Germany and Russia from their destruction was over one and a half millions.- In the United States and Canada over three hundred thousand persons perished in the last year from the bacilbui alone. The most-common disease resulting from it is consumption of the lungs, but other organs of the body are liable to be affected as they develop slowly but surely in any organ that may be in a weak or unhealthy state. If active and healthy, the liver, kidneys and bowels have to a wonderful extent the power of expelling these deadly animalculse or parasites from the system And this fact furnishes an important indication for the successful treatment of all the long list of maladies caused by these para-ites as will be hereinafter shown.

Tne studies of LanciscA, an eminent Italian, and Wood, ForAad and others are interesting, as showing the large variety of chronic diseases as heretofore classified, that result from these germa Among the most common were “liver complaint.” biliousness or torpid liver, dyspepsia or indigestion lung affections, bronchitis, kidney diseases, chronic diarrhea, spinal complaint, fever-sores, white swellings, hip-joint disease, rheumatism, malarial diseases, such as fever and ague or Intermittent fever, general and nervous debilities, female weaknesses, chronic catarrh of the head or ozsena, many forms of unhealthy discharges from internal organs, and all the various scrofulous affections of the skin, glands, bones, joints, etc., including consumption, which is but scrofulous disease of the lungs. In this large catalogue of apparently widely differing diseases, but really all depending upon a common cause, and therefore naturally to be successfully treated on the fame general principles, examination of the blood and secretions revealed large numbers of these parasites, and curiously enough the number bore a direct relation to the severity of the disease, a comparatively small number being present in mild cases and a very large proportion in bad cases Under the use of the specific treatment which they give, and which is substantially the same as that described and recommended later in this review, the number was seen to steadily diminish from day to day until, with the restoration of health ana bodily strength, they could not be found at all The greatest variety of symptoms were found to accompany tJieir presence, due to peculiarities of the constitution, the part of the body most seriously affected, and the efforts of the different organs to rid the system of these germa Among the most common were frequent headaches, neuralgic pains, nausea, constipation, poor or variable appetites, diarrhoea, bad breath, hectic fever, cough, night sweats, cold extremities, dyspepsia, catarrh, sore throat, sore eyes, etc., while where the skin was affected, saltrheum, boils, carbuncles, scurf skin erysipelas, St Anthony’s fire, and other symptoms were common, and all gradually but with certainty were cured by the same means. The hectic fever so often met with In consumption, with the hacking' or tearing cough, night-sweats, diarrhoea, and other symptoms due to the efforts of nature to throw off and expel these germs were also readily controlled and cured in the same way as were the old sores, abscesses and ulcers in the lungs, liver ana other important organs The corrosive acids and mineral poisons are found to possess the power of killing these germs, but the dangerous nature of such powerful agents prevents their internal use. For the purpose of expelling the germs when once within the system it is necessary to resort to vegetable remedies in order to cleanse the blood of the germs without injury to the patient. An American physician of large experience in the treatment of all forms of chronic diseases, now conclusively shown to be caused by parasitic life, for many years devotdd much time to the investigation of the causes of these affections, and in the treatment of many thousand cases developed and thoroughly tested a combination of vegetable agents which he used with marvelous success in their cure. In cases of wasting diseases, such as consumption, or scrofula of the lungs, and other organs, and in all cases attended with great

weakness, it was found to exert the most wonderful tonic and restorative Influences, beside its nutritive properties far surpass and quinine bear no comparison to it in building up the strength of the debilitated. The recipe as advised by him his been used for years with the greatest success in a vast and most successful practice. The written experience of the many sufferers who have been cured, and who express in terms of the highest praise their indorsement of Its great value, are sufficient to fill volumes. Living witnesses are everywhere, monuments to modern genius and scientific progress tn the healing art Sufferers from “liver oomplaint,” giving rise to “bad biod,” consumption, scrofula, and other affections and symptoms, the results of blood poisoning from the ravages of the deadly parasites or disease germs so briefly referred to, find in this remedy prompt relief and a permanent cure. The great and increasing demand for this G odgiven and peerless remedy for so many apparently different but really kindred, wments, led to ita preparation in pure and convenient form under the name of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery.. It can be obtained the world over at drug and general stores, and full directions for its use will be found in the pamphlet that surrounds each bottle. It exerts the most wonderful stimulating and invigorating influence on the liver, that greatest gland of the human system, which has been notinaptlytermed’the “housekeeper of our health.” Through the increased action of the liver and other emunctory organs of the system, all poisonous germs are rendered inactive ana gradually expel ed from the system with other impurities. In-some cases, where there are unhealthy discharges, as from the nostrils in cases of either acute or chronic catarrh, the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, a mild and healing antiseptic lotion, should be associated with the use of the Discovery. It is also advisable to use this lotion in other local manifestations of disease of mucous surfaces By this means the germs of disease are destroyed and the membranes cleansed before any of the poisonous bacilli are absorbed into the blood. In sore throat, quinsy or diphtheria, the Catarrh Remedy liquid should be used as a gargle, and the Golden Medical Discovery taken freely. In women where weakness of special organs is common and almost certain to-be developed, attended by backache, bearingdown sensations and other local symptoms, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, in conjunction with that of the Discovery, speedily restates the healthy functions ana assists in building up and invigorating the system. In any case where the bowels have been costive and are not regulated and acted upon sufficiently by the mild laxative properties possessed by the Golden Medical Discovery, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets flittie liver pills), taken in small doses of only one or two each day, will aid materially in establishing healthy action, and in expelling the disease-producing germs from the blood and system. At the risk of repetition and by way of recapitulation, we may truthfully say that Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from the worst scrofula to a common blotch, pimple or eruption. Erysipelas, salt rheum, fever-sores, scaly or rough skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease germs in the blood, are conquered by this powerful, purifying and invigorating medicine. Great eating ulcers rapidly heal under ita benign influence. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous sores ana swellings, white swellings, goitre or thick /neck and enlarged glanda “The blood is the life.” Thoroughly cleanse this fountain of health by using Golden Medical Discovery’, and good digestion a fair skin, buoyant spirits, vital strength iffid soundness'of constitution are established.

Consumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs induced by the deadly disease germ bacilun, is jpromptiy and positivelyarrested and cureaby this sovereign remedy, if taken before the last stages of the disease are reached. From its wonderful -power over this terribly fatal disease, when first offering this now world famed remedy Jo the public, Dr. Pierce thought favorably of calling it his “consumption cure,” but abandoned that name as too restrictive for a medicine that from ita wonderful combination of germ-destroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening, alterative, or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious, diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not only as a remedy for consumption of the lungs, but for all chronic diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and lungs. If you feel dull, drowsy, debilitated, have sallow color of skin, or yellowish brown spots on face or body, frequent headache or dizziness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternated with hot flashes, low spirits and gloomy forebodings, irregular appetite, and tongue coated, you are suffering from indigestion, dyspepsia and torpid liver or “biliousness. ” In many cases only part of these symptoms are experienced. As a remedy for all such cases Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has no equal as it effects perfect and radical cures. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, short breath, consumptive night-sweats, and kindred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. In the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and consumption, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovery of the age. The nutritive properties possessed by coa liver oil are trifling when compared with those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It rapidly buildsup the system and increases the flesh and weight of those reduced below the usual standard of health by wasting diseases. The plan of treatment that we have so br.efly outlined in this article for the large class of chronic diseases referred to has long been acknowledged to be the most successful, based as it is upon the belief shared by the most skillful medical men of the day, that the only way to get rid of the noxious disease-producing germs in the blood and system is through the liver, kidneys and bowels, and therefore that those * agents which are known to act most efficiently in restoring healthy action of these organs are the ones most to be relied upon. For this purpose the Golden Medical Discovery is pre-eminently the agent that fulfills every indication of treatment required.