180 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



That it was discovered by a nurseryman who knew 

 nothing of medicine or medical science. 



That it was downright humbuggery to speak of all 

 diseases being caused by microbes, for the reason that 

 any man can count the number due to such cause on his 

 fingers and have digits to spare. 



That surgeons only apply antiseptics to check the de- 

 velopment of microbes, but that they cannot kill them^ 

 and 



He asks the question whether such ignorance was ex- 

 cusable when it endangered the public health. 



The defendant also submitted an analysis of the 

 microbe-killer which he claimed to have made. In re> 

 turn Mr. Radam submitted his affidavits that he had 

 never purchased or used an ounce of any kind of acid in 

 the manufacture, of his microbe-killer. He also proved 

 conclusively that the combination of gases which he 

 had used in making his microbe-killer, and the manner 

 in which they were generated and mixed, absolutely pre- 

 cluded a chemical analysis. 



From the hundreds of volunteer witnesses among the 

 persons who had been cured by the use of the microbe- 

 killer, the court received the evidence of twenty, as 

 many as it deemed necessary. 



These witnesses testified that they had been cured by 

 the use of the microbe-killer. Some had taken only a 

 few gallons, while others had taken one hundred or 

 more gallons of the gas. 



The long case at last came to a close. Judge Andrews, 

 in his charge to the jury, told them that the plaintiff 

 had been libelled and that the whole article was libellous 

 on its face, and that the plaintiff had clearly proven, 

 beyond all possibility of doubt, the microbe- killer was 

 absolutely harmless and that it had effected wonderful 

 cures. The jury immediately returned a verdict for Mr. 

 Radam, and warfare was ended. 



But Mr. Radam went further. He actually cured of 

 consumption a man who had been declared in writing, 

 by the physician against whom the suit was brought, as 

 having consumption. 



