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advanced too far, and it was necessary to use the medi- 

 cine externally, as well as internally, to attack the mi- 

 crobes wherever they could be reached. The case shows 

 also that we may be able to rescue a patient, even from 

 the edge of the grave, if we go the right way to do it, 

 and if we are able to act with an understanding of Na- 

 ture's laws and methods, so that we may see the import- 

 ance of using the medicine in such a way as to permeate 

 all the tissues, and thus, as it were, soak the body, as I 

 have before explained. 



The microbe-killer contains no drugs of an organic 

 character. It is simply a solution of gases, which pass 

 readily through the tissues, much as the perspiration 

 passes through the pores of the skin, and thus they get 

 into the blood and circulate throughout the system. It 

 will be seen, therefore, how important it is to thor- 

 oughly carry the remedy everywhere, to leave no part 

 of the body free to enable the microbes to increase ; and 

 the facility with which this medicine passes thus into 

 every tissue and to the remotest parts by means of the 

 <3apillary vessels adds very much to its great value. 



In serious diseases which run their course quickly, 

 and in the treatment of which prompt action is import- 

 ant, such as typhoid and scarlet fever, measles, small- 

 pox, and the like, external applications are also neces- 

 sary and important. The skin absorbs the active princi- 

 ple of the medicine almost as freely and as quickly as, 

 sometimes even more quickly than, the absorption 

 through the stomach, and its effects must in such dis- 

 eases be obtained as rapidly as possible. But in ordinary 

 diseases, especially where treatment can be begun with- 

 out delay, internal dosing in sufficient quantities will 

 effect a cure, and, as already stated, it acts as a preven- 

 tive when taken during health. 



Some*doctors have asserted that the microbe -killer 

 contains poisonous drugs. It is a bare assertion, made 

 in complete ignorance of what it really is ; but the folly 

 of such statements is apparent on its face, for if such 

 were the case how could it be administered in large 



