84 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



will stop fermentation. If you do this you get him down 

 to the point. If you test his medicine in the way and 

 manner I have described before you swallow it, you 

 may have learned something which had you not learned 

 would have resulted in an injury to your system. 



Should any one dare tell you that rheumatism, cancer, 

 or consumption, or in fact any kind of disease, is not 

 caused by microbes, just tell him that I have offered 

 and still offer one hundred dollars for each and every 

 disease that can be proven not to be caused by microbes, 

 the reward to go to the person or persons making the 

 discovery. Such a man has not been found, nor will 

 any one ever be able to demonstrate that any of the con- 

 clusions I have reached in my investigations are untrue 

 or only partially true. I cannot blame the doctors for 

 doctoring the people in a medical and scientific way, nor 

 can I fail to understand that their business demands 

 that they should keep the cause and cure of disease a 

 secret ; but I can blame the sick who swallow every- 

 thing and anything, without knowing what those rem- 

 edies contain and what they are supposed to do, and 

 why they can or cannot cure them. It is remarkable 

 how people have been humbugged and blindfolded into 

 the belief that symptoms can be cured without remov- 

 ing the cause. 



Some have used medicines to cure a cough, fever, ner- 

 vousness, pain, or other symptoms, without knowing 

 what is the cause of those symptoms. They also have 

 been told that their trouble is in the heart, lungs, kid- 

 neys, throat, or any other part of the body, and that, in 

 order to cure the different symptoms in a certain part 

 of the body so diagnosed or guessed, it is necessary to 

 swallow a certain medicine and send that to the very 

 spot diagnosed as diseased. 



Now, the human body is not built like a house, full of 

 water pipes, with stop cocks, to lead the water to a cer- 

 tain compartment just where it is wanted. Whatever 

 we eat or drink goes into the stomach, and from there 

 every part of the body is nourished or cured. This 



