FORTY BILLION GERMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3173, 6 April 1889, Page 2

FORTY BILLION GERMS.

In his quiet and cosy library at the close of a busy day sat a gentlenitts and his wife, he absorbed in a new book, and Bhe in a newspapor. Quickly glancing towards her husband, she asked, at a certain point in tho articlo:

"John, what is the germ theory?" " The ge,un thoory—well— yes; just look in the oncyclodajdia under ' Germ,' that will explain it so much better than I can." Accordingly, his wife opened the book at the word named, and read: Germ Tlioory of Disease—A theory advanced by tho ablest and best investigators and scientists of the times,' It supposes the Burface of the eartlr, the air, ind water to inhabited to a greater or lesnßt with a peouliar growth of the lowest form of fungi—commonly torraed bacteria, whose power of reproduction under favourable conditions, is bo great that a single gorm will increase to fifteen million in twenty-Jour hours' time, and unchecked in its increase would grow lo a mass of eight hundred tons in three djtf time, if space and foodisfurnnJl, There is no condition under which* it can be said to bo absent, unless it bo from fire or air filtered through cotton-batting in numerous lajers. A single drop of water containing a germ, put into wator boiled, filtered, and thus freed from bacteria, will grow murky in a day or two from the development of new germs. When it is considered that it requires about forty billion to weigh one grain, some remote idea can bo had of tho capacity of germ reproduction. Professor John Tyndall, in a late work, elaborately treats of the influence of germs in the]r*onagation of disease, and this cause the inception and' development of very many of the' ailments most injurious to man. Professor Pasteur, an eminent French savant, has carried his original and beautiful experiments so far, and from : them deduced such practical results as very greatly to diminish the number of cases of anthrax among sheep and chicken cholera among fowls—proving his theory that, these aro essentiaEy find actually genn dieewsg, TKW» 4« to#)'

•system through the lungs, tho Btonmoh, and possibly the skin, but through the lungs chiefly. Unce in 1 the Bystoin they begin to develope, poisoning tho blood, invading the norve centres,' disturbing the functional activity of the great organs ot jjtethe body, and inducing a general j * impairment of tho vital processes, They are the causes of fevor, rheuma- > tisin, Blight's diseaso of the kidneys, j pneumonia, blood poisoning, liver ; disease, diphtheria, and many other j ailments. Lately, Professor Koch, l a famous German l'hysician, has , proved that consumption of the lungs i is dub to this cause—the proseuce of a peculiar germ. . When the circulation is bounding, ' tho nerves olastio and the system all aglow, ivith life and energy, tho germs seetfcto developo]poorly, if at all. But with'wakened nerves, poor digestion, ■ or mUassimilalion of food, or a lowering of vitality from any cause, a change ensues, and in this impover- . ished and weakened fluid tho germ ■ finds a genial borne, and develops • until symptoms of disease are distinctly manifested. This is seen in the every day experience of all. The healthy man resists the influences around him and docs not take cold, while those whosesystemhavo become •» weak from any 'cause readily coni tract colds. This is on the same principle as tho germ theory. The gerniß attack any weakened spot iu the body, and fixing themselves upon it, begin their propagation. It is plain, therefore, that it is only by fortifying the woak portions of tho body that the germs of disease can bo resisted and driven t from the system. But this has proved almost an impossibility heretofore, and it has •been the study of physicians for years how best to accomplish it. Within the past few years, however, a preparation has bsen attracting great attention, not only throughout ' tho entire land, but among the medical profession tnd scientists generally, which is based upon this theory, and it may safely bo said no remedy has evor been found which can so successfully placo tho system l in a condition to resist the germs of I disease as Warner's Safe Curo. This article is unquestionably tho best and most efficient article that has ever been discovered for this purpose, and—- " John, say, John, does the en•jS cyclopcedia advertise Warner b Safe Cure?" " I should not wonder, dear; it s a grand remedy, aud that pamphlet we received the other day stated that Dr Gunn, of tho United Siat I Medical College, endorsed it. At all events, tho wonderful cures it is accomplishing entitle it to bo honorably noted among the great coveries of the present; century." However tho facts above stated m&y be, the truth remains, that the germ theory of diseaso is the correct one, and that tho great remedy mentioned is tho only one which has over been found that can put the system in a condition to kill these germs before they obtain a hold upon the body and undermine the life.