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more deaths than any and all epidemics. In this dis- 

 ease as in many others the bacteriologists have traced 

 the germ throughout; they have raised millions of 

 them; they have observed their death-struggles in their 

 patent serums or antitoxins, yet all understand that 

 the applied teachings of bacteriology will not cure the 

 grip, neither will it cure typhoid fever, diphtheria, con- 

 sumption or hiccough. When virulent cases are met the 

 physician of experience will seek the cause in the sani- 

 tary condition of the premises and not in the species 

 of germs or other microbes revealed by the microscope. 



One large patent medicine company, taking advan- 

 tage of the germ theories, says: "The germs lie in 

 wait for human life on every side. Twenty per cent of 

 the dairy cows of the United States are tuberculous, 

 and the average grade of milk sold in large cities con- 

 tains as high as eighty million germs in a cubic inch. 

 These facts are appalling. The very existence of the 

 human race seems threatened. So fast indeed are new 

 parasites being produced that were not science con- 

 stantly elaborating counter checks our boasted civiliza- 

 tion would soon come to the end of its tether. One of 

 the greatest counter checks to disease is our remedies," 

 etc. 



First, this wide-awake patent medicine firm would 

 make it appear that there are eighty million so called 

 consumptive germs to each cubic inch of milk. Milk 

 may contain millions of germs, whether they are the 

 so called consumptive germ or not, makes little differ- 

 ence. The water we drink contains millions of germs 

 also. So does the air we breathe and the food we eat. 



