People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1894 — The Scare About Germa. [ARTICLE]

The Scare About Germa.

A physician tells the Cincinnati Times-Star that the widespread fear oi disease germs is largely groundless. “Everything,” he says, “is full ot germs or crusted with them, but eveij germ is not harmful. Every disease germ on the body does not produce a disease. If it did there would not be s person on the face of the earth to-mor-row. People lived before disease germa were known and were as healthy as they Tire to-day. They lived as carefully as we do —perhaps more so. Wa cannot avoid contact with disease germs, but we can do what is better, streugthen the body so that it resists them as easily as a lion can a ilea. Some scientists pretend to deplore « lack of precaution people take againtd germs. It is simply bocause the peo pie see, despite theories, that everj germ doesn't produce sickness anj mere than every man is a murderer Every man may possibly bo one, but wouid not ba justiinl go’.rt armed on that account'