22 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



the system. This accumulation of waste results from 

 indigestion and lack of elimination. The waste acts 

 as a poison and disease follows. 



There are no poisons known in the realm of bacter- 

 iology to compare with the natural waste of the human 

 body. If a healthy man was compelled to breathe the 

 poisonous carbonic acid given off from his own lungs, 

 death would be almost instantaneous. Urea eliminated 

 by the kidneys, if retained, would cause death in a few 

 hours, yet the bacteriologist would have us believe that 

 the only danger is to be found in their so called germs. 



All these changes and these poisons are the results 

 or effects of natural law. The carbonic acid given off 

 by the lungs is taken up by the vegetable kingdom, and 

 the oxygen given off by the vegetable kingdom is taken 

 up by the lungs. In both cases the change is pro- 

 duced by little germ cells of which the structures are 

 formed, and while these changes are taking place in liv- 

 ing matter, other germs influence changes in dead mat- 

 ter, and the elements of dead tissue are given back 

 to support the living. Germs were created for this 

 purpose. This is self evident, otherwise they would 

 not be even r where present and would not have the 

 power to produce fermentation, but nature foresaw and 

 prepared to meet these changes, hence the power of the 

 human system to destroy germs and eliminate poisons. 

 As germs are the primary forms of all living matter, 

 they may be compared to a seed, as already mentioned. 

 If all germ life should be destroyed, all the higher 

 forms of life would cease to exist, all animal and 

 vegetable life would rapidly pass away, perish, and 



