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mostly acids, as in the souring of milk. These acids 

 unite with the calcium or lime of which the teeth are 

 formed and little by little the teeth are destroyed. 

 Thousands of germs find their way from the mouth 

 into the air-passages, stomach, etc., and when the sys- 

 tem is unhealthy many enter the circulation. That 

 is why so many can be found in the lungs in pneu- 

 monia and grip. 



An article appearing on page 184 of the Physician 

 and Surgeon for April, 1900, contains the following 

 under the head of influenza: In this disease bacteri- 

 ologists may find present in the lungs, throat and 

 sputum, respectively, the pneumonia germ, tubercular 

 germ and diphtheria germ, but on closest inspection 

 and investigation fail to find present the diseases at- 

 tributed to these germs." 



Germs are continually being carried downward by 

 the act of swallowing, and if they live in the system 

 long enough to reach tissue that has been destroyed by 

 disease they lodge in such tissue and reduce it. In the 

 system as well as out germs are the medium by which 

 nature reduces dead matter, by which the dead is made 

 to support the living, and all the theories bacteriology 

 can advance will neither change or improve this plan. 



The Physician and Surgeon for December, 1899, con- 

 tains an article under the head of consumption, in 

 which it states that "certain forms of this infection 

 (consumption) occur in which no tubercular bacillus 

 can be found, and these cases have come to be recognized 

 as cases of pseudo tuberculosis." 



