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felt better. The lungs began throwing off large quan- 

 tities of fermentation, the rheumatism was less severe, 

 and in fact Mr. Radam felt better than he had in years. 

 He continued taking the gas-water, as he called it, and 

 within four months the discharges from his lungs had 

 ceased and he had gained ten pounds in weight, to say 

 nothing of the improvement in his general condition. 



To cut a long story short, within a year Mr. Radam 

 had completely recovered his health and his weight had 

 increased from one hundred and forty-four to two 

 hundred and seven pounds. He was then partially bald. 

 The thought came to him to apply the water-gas ex- 

 ternally to his head. In a short time a slight fuzz began 

 to cover his head, and within a year he had a moderately 

 thick head of hair. 



Mr. Radam had noticed that different plants had been 

 differently affected by the substances he had tried upon 

 them. Therefore he was not certain whether the means 

 that had cured him would cure any one else or not. He 

 had no intention of giving up the florist business to 

 engage in selling medicines, and he looked upon his dis- 

 covery only as what had been the means of restoring 

 him to health. In spite of this, however, there grew 

 upon him the desire to know what effect the medicine 

 would have upon others. If he had made no mistake in 

 his theory, all diseases were caused by microbes, and in 

 order to prevent fermentation, which is really disease 

 itself caused by microbes, an antiseptic was needed 

 powerful enough to destroy the microbes without injur- 

 ing the person taking the medicine. He could prevent 

 fermentation, as already shown by his experiments with 

 the pieces of fresh meat. By the use of his gas-impreg- 

 nated water he had arrested fermentation in his own 

 body and cured himself, when he had been told by his 

 physicians that he had only a short time at the most to 

 live. Would his discovery work as successfully with 

 other people as it had with him ? Would it kill the 

 microbes which probably caused other diseases as w^ell 

 as the microbes w^hich caused his particular diseases? 



