"THE LEAVES OF THE TREE were FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS." 

 MINUTE FUNGACIOUS ORGANISMS. 



Professor Carl von Nacgeli, in his work on The 

 Organisms in relation to Infectious Diseases ^i 

 declares that the decompositions effected by the mould fung ^m 

 decay or consumption. Under their influence for instance 

 putrify, or wood is converted into mould by a kind of slow combustion of 

 uruanic substances. The decompositions to which the sprouting fi 

 saccharomyces gives rise, are these of fermentation By their age 

 6uar is converted into alcohol and carbonic acid. The infectious princi- 

 ples of septic diseases (that which promotes the putrifaction of orgam 

 bodies) manifest themselves through putridity, originated again by pe 

 culiar luugi, which may be the bearers of a separate putrid matter also. 

 The atmosphere is the medium through the agency of which infectious- 

 germs are most generally disseminated after they have been reduced to a 

 state of minute dust by desecation." Other eminent scientists and nu- 

 merous observing laymen are hourly verifying the above affirmation as. 

 they become more familiar with 



THE CHEMISTRY OF CREATION. 



Prof essor Ellis, F.L.S., in his standard work on the "Chemistry of 

 Creation," (folio 162) states : " Insects, fish, lichens, infusorial animal- 

 cules, volcanic ashes, sand, earth, and many other substances are occa- 

 sionally borne into the air by the action of rapidly revolving currents, 

 and are dropped often at a great distance from the places whence they 

 were snatched." And concerning our long pitiable ignorance regarding the 

 composition and functions of the air we breathe, Professor Ellis declares- 

 (folio 130) " until the middle of the eighteenth century the opinion was 

 very prevalent that the atmosphere formed one of the four elementary 

 bodies; that it was in fact a simple, undecomposable gas. It was re- 

 served for the talented Dr. Priestly to dispel this error. He discovered 

 the existence of a new gas which formed one of the constituents of air. 

 In this gas it was found that combustion took place with extraordinary 

 intensity; even iron wire heated red-hot and plunged into it caught fire 

 and burnt away. Other combustibles gave out showers of the most bril- 

 liant sparks and produced the most intense heat when placed in the jar 

 containing it. A lighted taper having been blown out immediately re- 

 kindled when put into it and blazed with much greater brilliancy than in 

 the air. Another gas was also found to form a component of the air 

 namely, nitrogen. The former being oxygen. The writer proceeds to 

 state that " animals were exhilarated when plunged into oxygen, and 

 they were suffocated in nitrogen. " A never failing spring of oxygen 

 exists," continues Prof. Ellis, '* and its copious streams, by a nice adjust- 

 ment, replace by far the greater part of the loss. In the green grass, in 

 the leaves of unpretending herbs and in those of the clustering woods, 

 we shall find are hid those springs of this precious ingredient, without 

 which desolation and death might at no distant time gradually overwhelm the 

 globe." Prof. Ellis further states (folio 238) that the carbonic acid pois- 

 ons which destroy animal life and provide sustenance for disease germs, 

 are furnished to the air by various processes of combustion, respiration, 

 putrifaction, and from volcanic craters, etc., which constitute the true 

 source of vegetable nutrition. The composition when in a normal con- 

 ilition being, Carbon . . 27:27. Oxygen . . 72.73: " Each 



