1Y6 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



These questions bothered Mr. Eadam. Day after day 

 he longed to know how valuable and far-reaching was 

 his new compound of concentrated gases. 



He determined to try the medicine, if possible, upon 

 some person affected with disease. The laws of Texas 

 were then, as they are now, very strict regarding the 

 practice of medicine. If he gave the medicine to a sick 

 person, and instead of recovering that person died, then 

 he would be liable for murder. Again, if he prescribed 

 the medicine for any one he would be attacked by the 

 physicians, no matter whether it cured the patient or 

 not. As he had absolutely nothing to gain except to 

 satisfy his curiosity, Mr. Radam bided his time. 



A short distance from where he lived a young man 

 was dying with consumption. A few months previous 

 three members of the same family had died of con- 

 sumption, and the death of the young man in question 

 was supposed to be a matter of only a few weeks. 



This young man visited Mr. Radam one day and asked 

 him how he had been cured. Mr. Radam told him that 

 was a secret of his own. ^' But," said he, 'Hhe medi- 

 cine that cured me is in that little jug. It is pleasant 

 to take, it is absolutely harmless, and I believe it will 

 cure you of your consumption, and that it will also cure 

 any disease that man is heir to. I can't give you any of 

 the medicine, nor can I sell it to you. But I am going 

 out of the room for a moment, and if you should steal 

 that jug of gas-impregnated water I should never make 

 any trouble about it. The law does not allow me to 

 prescribe it nor induce people to take it, but if you 

 should steal it and take it yourself according to direc- 

 tions, three or four wineglassfuls a day, then if you 

 should be killed by it no one would be to blame but your- 

 self." 



Then Mr. Radam went out of the room. When he re- 

 turned a few minutes later the young consumptive was 

 gone and so was the jug. 



Within a week there was a decided improvement in 

 the condition of the young man who had stolen the medi- 



