FORTY MILLION GERMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2337, 3 July 1886, Page 3

FORTY MILLION GERMS.

~ Irr his quiet '■ co*y"'liKrarjTafThe close of a happy day aat a gentleman and his wife, he absorbed in a now book, and aim in a uawspaper. Quickly glancing tflkrds Ivor husband, slit) asked, at a curwSJ point in the article: "John what is tire germ theory 1" ''The gurui theory—wall—yes ; just look in the encyclopedia under" Gam," Uiat vill explain il so much better than 1

Accordingly, his wife oponed the book ,St the the word named, and read: Germ Theory of Disoase—A theory advanced ■. by the ablest and best iuvostigatora and scientists of the times, It supposes the of tho earth, the air, and water ' Mta^ s inhabited to a greater or less extent ', ii.peculiar growth of the lowest form of. .fungi—commonly termed baoteria, whose power of reproduction under favor-. able conditions, is so great that a single germ will increase'to fifteen million in .twenty-four hours' time, and unchecked

in ita increase would grow to a mass of sight hundred tons in three days' time, if space and food bu furnished. There in no condition under which it can be said to be absent, unless it bo from fire or air filtered through cotton batting in numerous layers. A singlo drop of water oontainim/ a germ put into water t)oiled,-£lter'ed, and thus freed forom tho bajßma, will grow murky in a day or two MB the development of now germs. wHonit is considered that it takes about forty billions to weigh one grain, some remote idea can bo had of the capacity of germ reproduction. Professor Tyndall, in a recent work, elaborately treats of the influence of germs in the propagation of disease, and charges upon this cause the inception and development of very many of the ailments most injurious to man. Professor Pasteur, an eminonfc French 7 has carried his original and beau- ' tirul experiments so far, and from them deduced such practical results as very greatly to diminish, the number of cases of anthrax among snoop and chicken cholera among fowls—proving his theory that these axe essentially and actually diseases. These germs are carried into th» system through the lungs, chiefly. One* ia the system they begin to develop poisoning the blood, invading the nerve centres, djsturtiiu] the functional activity et the gmfr organs of the body, and Inducing a general impairment of the rital proce&ses. They are the causes of brer, theifciatiim, Bright's disease of the kidneys, pneumonia, blood-poisoning, liver disease, diptheria, and many other ailments, Lately, Professor Koch a famous German physician, has proved kh»t consumption of the lungs is due to thiiaama—the pretence of a peculiar germ. When the circulation is bounding, the ■ertjfttlaitic and the system all aglow »itfl9r» and energy, the germs seem to develop poorly, if at aft. But with v«»ken»d nerves, poor digestion, or malassimilation of food, or a lowering of |jUlity from any cause, a change ensues, and in this impoverished and weakened fluid the gorm finds a genial home, and develops until symptoms of disease are distinctly manifested. This ut seen in th»'Bv«ry-day experience of all. The healthy man resists the influences around him and does not take cold, while those Those systems have becomo weak from any cause readily cuntract colds. This is en the same principle as the germ theory. The ((firms attack any weakened spot in thi body, and filing themselves upon it, begin their prorogation. It is- plain, therefore, that it is only by fortifying the veak portions of the body that the ?erms ef the disease can be resisted and driven from the system. But this has proved almost »n impossibility heretofore, and'it nu bean the study of physicians for years how best to accomplish it. Within the east few yean, however, a preparation has Vfn attracting great attention, not onlyrfJhroughout the entire land, but among the medical profusion and scientist* generally, which ia based upon this fchsory, and it may safely be said no wrasdy has eror been found which can so successfully place the system in a condition to resist the germ of disease as Wmers Safe Cure. This article is un(AfiHouably the beat and most efficient that has ever been discovered ioi this purpose, and—"John, say, John, does the encyclopedia advertise Warner's Safo Cure i" "I should not wonder, dear, it's a grand remedy, and that pamphlet wo received the other day stated that Dr Gums, of the United states Medical College, endorsed it. At all •ovontu, tho

wonderful cures it is accomplishing entitle it to be honorably notud among tho great discoveries ef the present century." However tho facta abuvo stated may be, the truth remains, that the germtheory of tho 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 tponJjjtt body, and undermine the life.