40 MICROBES ASD HEALTH. 



After covering nearly half a page in a large newspaper, 

 this startling advertising firm states that their remedies 

 "make the body practically impregnable against dis- 

 ease." Then follow personal letters from many, who 

 "owe their lives to this wonderful medicine;" others 

 "thank God for their deliverance," etc. No wonder 

 people are sick! 



This wide-awake patent medicine firm has used bac- 

 teriology as a means for securing financial returns and 

 as a means of support while sending out their delusive 

 advertisements. 



Such talk only causes a morbid fascination, a fear 

 which lowers the powers of resistance and is a factor 

 in spreading disease. An unhealthy imagination is 

 undoubtedly the starting point of many diseases. Al- 

 though some of these diseases remind us of the man 

 who, when asked why he did not work, said his wife 

 had been studying the health journal and that she had 

 concluded that he had a tendency to softening of the 

 brain with complicated symptoms of Bright's disease, 

 palpitation of the heart, inflammation of the lungs, 

 cremation of the spleen, indignation of the esophagus, 

 hypertrophy of the palate, distant symptoms of liver 

 complaint and some internal evidence of paralysis. 

 Besides that the man claimed he was not feeling well. 



The bacteriologists have surrounded us with so many 

 perils that suicide would seem our only means of escape. 

 According to them it is not safe to breathe for fear of 

 taking in the tubercular germ, or to eat or drink for 

 fear of taking in the typhoid germ, while kissing your 



