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crobes. Under the powerful lenses upon the slides the 

 microbes will live only about one hour. Then fresh mi- 

 crobes are placed upon the slides and the performances 

 begin again. You can see the little demons, millions 

 in a single drop, swimming about, jostling each other, 

 breaking into sections, and each piece almost instantly 

 becoming as large as the original microbe, cavorting and 

 turning about, now in one direction, now in another. 

 That is the way the microbes act when in the system. 

 In an almost incredibly short time one microbe becomes 

 a mass of microbes, then millions. 



There are scores of interesting experiments which Mr. 

 Radam will show the visitor there — only too glad to show 

 them. He will prick the end of your finger and extract 

 a drop of blood, which he will place under one of the mi- 

 croscopes. Then you can see for yourself how your 

 blood looks. You can see the microbes, if there are mi- 

 crobes there, and there is likely to be. In no laboratory 

 in the world are such interesting experiments performed 

 as there. 



Physicians from all over the country come to New 

 York to see and study the microphotographs in Mr. Ea- 

 dam's office. Not a day passes by that Mr. Radam does 

 not have distinguished visitors — physicians, sanitary ex- 

 perts, business men, society women, and all classes of 

 people — who want to learn more about microbes. 



Few men could have accomplished physically what 

 Mr. Eadam has in seven years. He is a tireless worker. 

 Scarcely a day passes that he does not work sixteen 

 hours, either in experimenting with microbes or writing 

 about them. He has written one large volume about 

 microbes, which is regarded as a standard work, and he 

 is now preparing a second volume upon the same sub- 

 ject, fully illustrated. 



Personally Mr. Radam is a very pleasant man to meet. 

 He is tall, rather stout, with a full face, a high forehead, 

 and an intelligent look flashes in his eyes. When he 

 talks about microbes his face lightens up and he becomes 

 a brilliant conversationalist. A reporter of The Press 



