THE GERM THEORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2325, 19 June 1886, Page 3

THE GERM THEORY.

Rtobably n© discovery in the history of *"t*Mßfc M 3 l V has b»et». fraught with more toßitl result than that which is popakllf known as the sterm theory. Kirchaer. '"'Schwann, Hemholtx, Koch. Pasteur. ' Budd, Huxley, Lister; Sanderson, Car- * ■ penter, Tyndall, and! Bastiaa have shown •' us that in the mids!: of life, indeed, we ace in death. The air we breathe, the " water we drink, teems with minute organ- "' jams termed bacteria—active agents in the work of putrifactioo. Huxley, tn his upon '"Dxwt and Disease." fprtfved the organic origin of the motes Jkooating in London air, which are revealed by their reftectinsc and scattering the "light of a beam, of sunshine or electric "' lights Wheajfcese motes ire burned or r ""f»tarcepted, «Mfcness is produced in the "Nam, the air oemg then rendered optically pure. Germs, then, are never "absent from the conditions of oar lives, under the application of heat, or, "in a minor des/ree, of filtration. It is obvious, therefore, that it should be oar care to keep the air we breathe, and the Water we drink as free as possible from thecontaminati«>n of life germs, whose putrescent action is the cause u£ disease. To do this, it iis incumbent upon us to keep oo^dw elliaga, and surroundings free from thmkatluencea in which arise the stertns OfmSase. This, however, is at all times difficult to accomplish; and it is a curious circumstance, not as yet explained by scientific investigation, that disease is by 'means the scourjee only of those who iive amidst surroundings of filth and '.pAualor. On the contrary it is often found >Sat epidemics are most severe in their action among the well-to-do and refined of society. The Jews of the OJiatto, and the denizens of St. Giles tug not those who suffered moat severely during the periodical epidemics of cholera within the past eighty years. Observing this, it is impossible to escape the coodfosibn that the rude force of constitution which enabled those people to- resist the infiuencu of disease arose in their comparative purity of blood. Hard farp and hmd work are the natural conditions under which sound health is secured, and the physiologic conclusion is that the germ yimmin 0 £ disease is comparatively harmless in its action upon-, those whose physical functions and bodily systems are sound and'healthy. This acknowledged, we are compelled to the conclusion tliat She £cat ao&.most important factor tn any syatam of irwistaiice to disease, resides in securityparity c£ blood. That attained, all the organs of the body become healthy, and ' tfiiOTSOT which strike down the .weak and feeble are powerless to harm those who to themselves the conditions of a rWßtral existence. How to accomplish this end is, then, van all important question. But it is Mirtdiljr answered. Science, while alert to | ftnea the origiu of disease, is no less ceaaeVftn in her efforts to discover preventives #ni curatives. And just as the skilful farmer, by the application of those phosphates which have been exhausted, restores to land weakened by incessant cropping, the elements which have been withdrawn from it, so the chemist ■applies those restorative agents which give back to the human system the strength and force which have oeoii wasted. This fact is beautifully illustrated in Warner's Safe Cure. In Europe and America there are many thousands now alive who owe this agreeable circumstance to the use of the specific, when attacked with Typhoid and analogous diseases. The direct influence of this renewned medicine is upon the blood, which is restored to its original purity, and purged from all poisonous and debilitating matter. Thus, in all coiy*jLif<3 of malaria, typhoid, scarlet well as when the system is -weakened by Bright's disease, ordinary kidney or urinary affections, disorders of the liver and so forth, a resort to Warner's safe cuTe is always attended with good results. This is because the btood is purified and fortified by the assimilation of such restorative agents as nature has beneficially provided. In view of the v prevalence of Typhoid in these colonies at jLtfie present time, it is necessary to ini- ," "Ijreas upon the public intelligence the brief facts we have referred to. To be armed against the jiarms of disease it is necessary to purify the blood ; to do this itl is only needful to do that which ice have indicated, and attend to these ordinary hygienic and sanitary rules which themselves to every j thoaghtm! t.>oi'S"ji. j JDoctob-h (i.wvE Hot t p.—ls it possi j ble that Mr Godfrey w u|> and at -sork' , and cured by so simple a remedy !' " 1 assure you it is true that he is eutirely cored, and with nothing but Am, Co.'s Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and an id he must die.".^"" Wall-a-day llf that is so I will «> tXHbinute and get some for my poor Qeorgy I. know hops are good." Read.