120 MICROBE AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



To cure a disease means to stop it, not allow it to go on. 



So long as a wagon is housed and sheltered from the 

 rain it will remain uninjured ; but, as it is accustomed 

 to being driven out in any kind of weather, we preserve 

 it by coating every part with an antiseptic paint to pre- 

 vent it from rotting. Nature has placed something 

 everywhere to grow. She destroys everything that she 

 creates, and in man makes no exception. Man cannot 

 always stay in the house, he must go out into the wet 

 and cold, and if not prepared to resist the sudden changes 

 of • temperature he will catch cold. That produces a 

 cough, and fermented matter is discharged. Now, stop 

 this fermentation by the use of a genuine antiseptic, 

 and disease is cured. By this means we preserve the 

 body from an early fermentation and decay. Our Crea- 

 tor has given us a pair of eyes to see the fermentation, 

 a nose to smell it, and a brain to think over what this 

 fermentation really is. But, strange as it may seem, 

 most people do not care to use these organs, but rather 

 pay others for using theirs. 



In spite of those natural facts which no one will dare 

 to deny, people still listen to such nonsense as that dis- 

 ease cannot be cured unless a regular medical, scientific 

 examination be made on their bodies to find out if the 

 lung is affected, and that a great many questions in 

 diagnosing the symptoms have to be asked (which 

 proves that the doctors do not know) to discover in 

 what particular part of the body the disease is (just as if 

 every part of the body could be cured separately) ; and 

 after much valuable time and money have been wasted 

 in destroying the common sense possessed by the patient, 

 he is now led to believe that he will get well again if 

 only he keep on swallowing punctually every hour (with- 

 out knowing what he swallows) the magic drops from 

 the large and the small bottle, which have no more to do 

 with stopping fermentation (which is disease) than green 

 apples have in curing dyspepsia. Hence disease goes on, 

 it becomes chronic, and the patient gradually ferments, 

 many in the prime of life. 



