Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — The Germ Theory. [ARTICLE]

The Germ Theory.

In 1721, the year of the great plague, Goiffin, a physician of Lyons, wrote as follows: “Minute insects or worms alone can explain these diseases. It is true they are not visible; but it does not therefore follow that they are nonexistent. It is only that our microscopes are not at present powerful enough to show them. We can easily imagine the existence of creatures which bear the same proportion to mites that mites bear to elephants. No other hypothesis can explain the sac ts. Neither the malign influence of the stars, nor terrestrial exhalations, nor miasmata, nor atoms, whether biting or burning, acid or bitter, could regain their vitality once they had lost it. If, on the other hand, we admit the existence of minute living creatures, we understand how infection can be conveyed in a latent condition from one place to break out afresh in another.” It will be seen from the above that at least one of Pasteur’s ideas was anticipated by 165 years. Mr. J. Howard James, manager Stuckert’s Livery, 619 N. sth s'.reet, Philadelphia, Pa., says: After trying all other remedies without relief, for a heavy cold on the chest, accompanied by a severe cough, I used Red Star Cough Cure, and in a very short time was entirely well. A young man who suffered pretty regularly .three times a week with severe attacks of neuralgic headache, was relieved by discontinuing meats, or adopting a purely vegetable diet. Meats when not thoroughly digested as they are apt not to be in case of torpid stomach and liver, develop poisonous compounds which favor rheumatic and neuralgic affections. Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. ... St. Jacobs Oil is pronounced a most extraordinary cure for rheumatism by Hon. wJifftnes Harlan, ex-Vice Chancellor, Louisville, Ky.

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