48 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



Bacteriologists make a great many experiments upon 

 birds as well as guinea pigs and other animals (man 

 included). These experiments are worse than useless 

 because they are misleading; yet, unthinking and sus- 

 ceptible, legislators have been juggled into passing laws 

 giving these experimenters, in the form of Health 

 Boards, full power to control the intelligent physician. 



As already stated, germs are everywhere present, 

 earth, air and water contain them in great numbers. 

 We eat, drink and inhale millions of them daily. They 

 have existed since creation began. They are most 

 abundant in low places, being drawn down by gravita- 

 tion, and also because there is more heat and moisture 

 which favor their development. They cannot live in 

 healthy animal tissue. They develop just as a seed 

 develops. If they develop in the human body; the 

 body was diseased before their entrance. Under the 

 proper conditions germs multiply and perform their 

 part in the changes going on all about us. 



Bacteriologists call the germ theory a new discovery, 

 yet germs are as old as matter. Germs are nature's 

 scavengers which consume corruption. They are as 

 old as life, but the cause of disease remains just where 

 it was before the first investigator discovered his first 

 bug. By studying germs we can no more understand 

 the cause of disease than we can understand an elephant 

 by studying the flea which lights on its ear. 



In a certain disease one kind of a germ is found, and 

 in another disease another kind of a germ is found, 

 and so bacteriologists tell us these different diseases 

 are caused by the diffent germs. Is that true? No, 



