30 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



soon be swept from the face of the earth. Germs that 

 have been subjected to a temperature of two hundred 

 und forty-eight degrees F. below zero by means of liquid 

 air have afterwards been found to grow vigorously at 

 a favorable temperature. Germs will also resist dry 

 lioat at a temperature of three hundred and two degrees 

 F. above zero. This is two hundred and sixteen de- 

 grees below freezing and ninety degrees higher than 

 "boiling water. This statement comes from the bac- 

 teriologists themselves, and may be proven by anyone 

 who cares to make the experiment. 



Does not their power to resist antiseptics, to resist 

 such extremes of heat and cold, their universal pres- 

 ence and power to produce fermentation, prove them 

 the medium through which all organic progress has 

 T)een made? While the poor deluded germ-doctor is 

 taking the life of one innocent germ, there are one 

 liundred million swarming about his head. 



I have endeavored to explain in a brief, practical 

 way the relation which germs bear to the material 

 world, and to the human race. 



Now let us listen to the bacteriologists, men who, 

 since the beginning of the germ theory almost thirty 

 years ago have been studying germs, raising germs in 

 test tubes and incubators, and then injecting them into 

 ranimals, that they might have a better opportunity of 

 studying their action. 



Surely they ought to know all about it. Let us see. 



The following is taken from a leading medical jour- 

 nal, the Alkaloidal Clinic of September, '99. In this 

 article the editors have kindly given us the views as 



