186 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER. 



names of various ailments are of no consequence ; but 

 they who want to know them must ask the doctors. 

 We only distinguish between disease and health, and 

 invariably effect a cure. When a plant is unhealthy 

 there is fermentation about the roots ; when a man is 

 unhealthy there is fermentation in the stomach. If the 

 roots are destroyed the plant perishes, and when the 

 human stomach is completely fermented the man dies. 

 All remedies, to be effective, must enter the stomach, 

 and not be inserted under the skin, as Dr. Koch's lymph 

 is, for example. If, then, the remedy be antiseptic and 

 harmless it will purify the stomach, free it from fermen- 

 tation and gases caused by microbes, and cleanse the 

 blood. Microbes take up oxygen and give out carbonic 

 acid, hence the sourness, fever, and pain accompanying 

 disease. Now, whatever goes into the stomach goes to 

 every part of the body. To cure the kidneys only is 

 not possible, because we cannot send the microbe-killer 

 into them and not into any other part of the body. 

 Wherever your pain is, the microbe-killer will find it 

 and cure it." 



