DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 47 



reader can easily guess. The malicious lies which some 

 of the wise men published about me after I was suc- 

 cessful prove that my discovery was not made for the 

 ''cause of medical science," but for the cause of the 

 people, who now are beginning to open their eyes to a 

 true knowledge of things which concern them inti- 

 mately. 



Common sense told me then that if an architect has a 

 test to find out the strength or the breaking strain of 

 any grade of cement, brick, stone, iron, steel, or what- 

 ever building material he may use, before he puts up the 

 building, why could I not tell by some kind of a test the 

 antiseptic power of any drug or medicine, and further 

 ascertain whether that drug or medicine was harmless to 

 the human body or not, before swallowing it ? The fol- 

 lowing will show that I have settled this question, which 

 makes all further experiment on the patient unneces- 

 sary. I will show in what way and manner I conducted 

 my experiments, which were continued about nine 

 months before I discovered the antiseptic that was effec- 

 tive and still harmless to human life. 



Every drug I bought, every herb I found, and every 

 juice or oil I extracted was tested in the following man- 

 ner : 



In each bottle of medicine to be tried I placed a small 

 piece of raw meat, sealed it up, wrote on the label the 

 date, the strength of the solution, and if it was com- 

 pounded according to a prescription I pasted the for- 

 mula on the bottle, and then noted the results. Every 

 day I took my note book in hand and examined every 

 bottle carefully to watch the action of the drug or medi- 

 cine on the meat. In most cases fermentation set in 

 after three or four days, in some later, and in a very 

 few bottles the meat did not ferment. The drug, oil, 

 or juice which showed no antiseptic properties was 

 thrown away, and the record in my book was made, 

 after the names of those drugs or combinations, ''no 

 good." Every bottle which proved to contain an anti- 

 septic was carefully examined for weeks and months. 



