124 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER. 



The effect of the microbe-killer in diphtheria has been 

 remarkable. The microbe yields quickly, and a use of 

 the microbe-killer a short time afterward drives the 

 poison out of the system and makes recovery speedy 

 and certain. I have never knov^rn a case of diphtheria 

 treated with this discovery which proved fatal, and I do 

 not believe it would be possible for a fatal case to occur 

 when a liberal use of the microbe-killer was the prompt 

 treatment. 



Physicians long ago accepted my theory that diph- 

 theria was caused by microbes. The remedies they 

 universally employ to cure the disease are antiseptics. 

 The most common, probably, is to spray the throat with 

 a weak solution of carbolic acid. Carbolic acid is a 

 good disinfectant, but experiments I have frequently 

 made show that a solution containing carbolic acid, 

 v^eak enough to be employed in spraying the throat 

 without injury to the patient, will not kill the microbes. 

 This can be readily proven by placing the microbes from 

 diphtheria in that solution — they will still live. But, 

 on the other hand, place those microbes in Eadam's Mi- 

 crobe-Killer and their propagation is immediately stop- 

 ped and in a short time the microbes are actually dead. 

 Could any one need stronger arguments than these to 

 convince him that disease is fermentation, and to cure 

 it there must be employed an antiseptic, absolutely 

 harmless to the weakest system, but still so powerful as 

 to kill the microbes which cause that fermentation ? It 

 naturally follows that such an antiseptic should be al- 

 ways at hand, to be used whenever the emergency arises. 



