Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — FORTY BILLION GERMS. [ARTICLE]

FORTY BILLION GERMS.

▲ Wonderful Theory that Concerns the Welfare,. Happiness, and life of Everyone. In his quiet and cosy library at the close of a busy day sat a gentleman and his wife, he absorbed In a new book and she in the newspaper. Quickly glancing toward her husband, she asked, at a certain point In the article. “John, what is the germ theory?” “The germ theory—well—yes; Just look In the encyclopedia under ‘Germ,’ that will explain it so much better than.l can.” Accordingly his wife opened the book at the word named and read: Germ Theory of Disease —A theory advanced by the ablest and best investigators and scientists of the times. It supposes the surface of the earth, the air and the water to be inhabited to a greater or less extent with a peculiar growth of the lowest form of fungi—commonly termed bacteria, whose power of reproduction, under favorable conditions, is so great that a single germ will increase to 15,000,000 In twentyfour hours’ time, and unchecked In Its Increase would grow to a mass of 800 tons, in tiiree days’ time, if space and food be furnished. There Is no condition under which it can be said to be absent, unless.it be from fire or air flittered through cotton-batting in numerous layers. , A single drop of water containing a germ, put into water boiled, flittered and thus freed from bacteria, will grow murky in a day or two from the development of new germs. When it is considered that it requires about 40,000,000,000 to weigh one grain, some remote idea can be had of the capacity of germ reproduction. Prof. John Tyndall, In a late work, elaborately treats of the influence of germs in the propagation of disease and charges upon this cause the inception and development of \ r ery many of the ailments most injurious to man. Prof. Pasteur, an eminent French savant, has carried his original and beautiful experiments so far, and from them deduced such practical results as very greatly to diminish the number of cases of anthrax among sheep and chicken cholera among fowls —proving his theory that these are essentially and actually germ diseases. These germs are carried into the system through the lungs, the stomach, and possibly the skin, but through the lungs chiefly. Once In the system, they begin to develop, poisoning the blood, Invading the nerve centers, disturbing the functional activity of the great organs of the body and inducing a general impairment of the vital processes. They are the cause of fevers, rheumatism, Bright’s disease of the kidneys, pneumonia, blood-poisoning, liver disease, diphtheria and many other ailments. Lately Prof. Koch, a famous German physician, has proved that consumption of the lungs is due to this cause —the presence of a peculiar germ. When the circulation is bounding, the nert'es'elastic and the system all aglow with life and energy, the germs seem to develop poorly, if at all. But with weakened nerves, poor digestion or mal-assimilation of food or a lowering of A'itality from any cause, a change ensues, and in this impoverished and Aveakened fluid the germ finds a genial home and develops until symptoms of disease are distinctly manifested. This Is seen in the every day experiences of all. The healthy man resists the influences around him and does not take cold, while those whose systems have become weak from any cause readily contract colds. This is on the same principle as the gyrm theory. The germs attack any weakened spot in the body, and fixing themselves upon it, begin their propagation. It is plain therefore that it is only by fortifying the Avoak portions of the body that the gerni6 of di6ease.can be resisted and driven from the system. But this has proved almost an impossibility heretofore,and It has been the study of physicians for years how best to accomplish it. Within the pa6t few years, however, a preparation has been attracting great attention, not only throughout the entire land, but among the medical profession and scientists generally, which is based upon this theory, and it may safely be said, no remedy has ever been found which can so successfully place the system in a condition to resist the germs of disease as AVaruer’s Safe Cure. This article is unquestionably the best and most efficient that has ever been discovered for this purpose, and “John, say, John! does the encyclopedia advertise Warner's Safe Cure?” “I should not wonder, dear, it’s a grand remedy, and that pamphlet we received the other day stated that Dr. Gunn, of the United States Medical College indorsed it. At all events the wonderful cures it is accomplishing entitle it to be honorably noted among the great discoveries of the present century.” ' However the facts above stated may be, the truth remains, that the germ theory of disease is the correct one and that the great remedy mentioned is the • only one which has ever been found that can put the system in a condition to kill these germs before they obtain a hold upon the body, and undermine the life.