Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Value of the Germ Theory. [ARTICLE]

Value of the Germ Theory.

The germ theory of disease has been turned to practical applications of the most varied nature, and of the most far-reaching importance to every people under the sun. Pointing to the marvelous discoveries of recent years in the origin and development of disease, in an address before the International Medical Association, John Simon, a very high medical authority, said : “I venture to say that in the records of human industry it would be impossible to point to work of more promise to the World than these various contributions to the knowledge of disease and of its cure and prevention.” This wonderful germ theory owes its origin to the study of the purely scientific question of spontaneous generation. The study of the great questions of heredity, now occupying so much attention among biologists, will surely lead, sooner or later, to practical applications of no less moment to the human race than those' based on the germ theory of disease,—[Worthington’s Magazine.