96 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER. 



doses to ehildren without injuring them ? As a matter 

 of fact, it contains, as I have said, no drug at all. If it 

 were what these doctors say, it would soon kill itself 

 No poisonous medicine such as they describe would be 

 allowed to exist. The people would soon find it out and 

 they would not have it. The microbe-killer is harmless, 

 and that it cures all who use it according to directions is 

 an assertion that proves itself. 



When a child is taken sick, no matter what the sick- 

 ness may be or what name the doctor chooses to apply 

 to it, remember what I said at the beginning of this 

 book. The disease is caused by a microbe, possibly a 

 special microbe, and your duty then is to use the .medi- 

 cine immediately, as long as necessary and as freely as 

 possible, until the child is cured, as it most assuredly 

 will be. Young children require less than adults, and I 

 have found that small people can do with less than lar- 

 ger ones, as might be anticipated from the method by 

 which the medicine is known to operate. It is not 

 necessary, for example, to use as much to secure a com- 

 plete saturation of the tissues in a small body as in a 

 large one. For very small children two teaspoonfuls 

 will usually suffice for a dose, and this may be repeated 

 as often as is necessary, but every four hours is about 

 the frequency that I find to answer. The size, age, and 

 temperament of the patient all have to be considered. 

 In the treatment of wounds, ulcers, boils, or local in- 

 flammations, poultices saturated with the microbe- 

 killer should be kept constantly applied to the surface, 

 and the internal treatment should be attended to at the 

 same time. But it must not be forgotten that whenever 

 employed externally it should also be used internally at 

 the same time. This is necessary. Taken internally it 

 purifies the blood, and when used externally some may 

 become absorbed ; but its chief value then is to relieve 

 pain and to prevent the increase of microbes on the in- 

 jured surface. A wound left exposed or improperly at- 

 tended to becomes a nidus for microbes, sometimes in 

 the simplest form, as micrococci or as bacteria or ba- 



