DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE- KILLER. 45 



mountains or pineries for their health — not to drink salt 

 water, nor to eat turpentine or creosote which the pines 

 contain, but to inhale the air which contains the vapors 

 or gases evaporated from the salt water or turpentine. 

 If we study the process of preserving meat or hams by 

 smoke we gain the same result. It is the gas arising 

 from the burning of the wood which contains the tur- 

 pentine or creosote which preserves the meat. The 

 result is not injurious to life, whereas if meat or hams 

 were soaked in turpentine or creosote they would not 

 only be preserved, but they would be poisonous and kill 

 whoever ate of them. This demonstrates again that the 

 gas is harmless while the drug itself is not. 



But further experiments soon told me that to make a 

 harmless antiseptic gas the drugs themselves must be 

 harmless. I read in a medical paper that a certain phy- 

 sician experimented to cure a patient with the gas gene- 

 rated from corrosive sublimate, and promptly killed the 

 patient. Anybody who ever inhaled the fumes of sul- 

 phuric, nitric, or muriatic acid knows the result which 

 follows. And right here I may mention that every imi- 

 tation microbe-killer sold to the people as medicine 

 alleged to kill microbes is made of nothing else than 

 diluted acids, which can be compounded by any one who 

 has not the slightest idea of the experiments that led me 

 to discover the microbe-killer. No chemist in the world 

 can show how Radam's Microbe-Killer is made. This 

 was practically shown in court, and extracts of those 

 proceedings are given in another chapter. 



With the knowledge I had accumulated by experi- 

 menting to cure plants, I set to work to find out why the 

 medicines prescribed by my physicians failed to cure me. 

 I put some fermented matter that came from my sto. 

 mach and lungs into the medicines, sealed the bottles up, 

 and noticed the result. In about two days the medicines 

 themselves fermented, showing they had no antiseptic 

 powers and hence could never cure me. I tried the 

 same experiment with all the other medicines that had 

 accumulated on my shelves, and always with the same 



