126 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



the result. If a horse eats too much green corn and 

 drinks water immediately afterward, fermentation sets 

 in before the stomach has time to digest the food. 

 Hence there is fermentation, and the horse is attacked 

 lay the colic — that is, volumes of gas are produced by 

 the action of the microbes which cause the fermenta- 

 tion. This gas naturally causes the body to swell, and 

 pain is the result. Sometimes this pain is most excru- 

 ciating, and frequently death is the result. 



A quart of the microbe-killer administered in such 

 cases kills the microbes at once. Hence fermentation 

 ceases and no more gas is produced. If relief does not 

 follow at once, a pint of microbe-killer injected into the 

 rectum will cause the gases to disappear immediately, 

 a,nd consequently the swelling of the body also passes 

 away. 



I tried to produce the same symptoms of colic in my 

 stomach, in order to test the efficiency of 'the microbe- 

 killer. I ate a large quantity of unripe pears and then 

 drank a bottle of stale beer. In fifteen minutes fermen- 

 tation set in and I had the colic. After the pain became 

 too severe to be endured I drank the tumblerful of the mi- 

 crobe-killer. This stopped the pain somewhat, but two 

 glasses additional, swallowed at intervals of five min- 

 utes, reheved me of all pain, and my stomach had then 

 time enough to digest the food, as this was thoroughly 

 saturated with the microbe -killer. 



The same results have been experienced by others 

 who have suffered from indigestion. A glass of microbe- 

 killer, drunk immediately after eating, always gives 

 relief. This goes to show that the food does not ferment 

 in a healthy stomach, and that, if we can stop it from 

 fermenting in a sick stomach, it will always be digested. 

 Had I possessed a quart of the microbe-killer at the time 

 my two children were ill, they would not have died 

 from fermentation in the stomach, which caused all 

 food to be rejected. I point out this incident simply to 

 show what the result will be if people listen to and be- 

 lieve that we need good microbes and that the food in 

 our stomach must ferment. 



