58 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



of this organ, both from pressure and lack of nourish- 

 ment. These cases do not occur often, but they are 

 always fatal and the cause has never been given. 

 There is no known treatment that is of benefit. 



But if germs are the special enemy of the white 

 corpuscles, and the white corpuscles the only enemy 

 of the germs, as claimed by the bacteriologist, then 

 here is a chance to use germs to advantage, literally 

 feed the man on germs, the more virulent or poisonous 

 the better. Let them destroy the white corpuscles and 

 bring the patient back to health. 



Bacteriologists do not pretend that Leucocythemia is 

 caused by germs, yet there is an enormous increase in 

 the white corpuscles. Again, the bacteriologists claim 

 that these white corpuscles only increase when there is 

 danger from invading germs. 



Bacteriologists teach that in case of accident the 

 system sends great numbers of these white corpuscles 

 to the point of injury for the purpose of protecting 

 the part from germ invasion. Is that true ? 



Injury that produces swelling and inflammation also 

 paralyzes the nerves which control the size of the small 

 blood-vessels, and the vessels dilate. In proportion to 

 such enlargement the circulation is lessened. Every 

 one understands that a broad creek or river will not 

 flow as rapidly as the same amount of water in a nar- 

 rower channel. The same is true with the circulation. 

 When the arteries broaden the circulation becomes 

 sluggish. In this sluggish circulation the white cor- 

 puscles collect, just as driftwood carried by a creek or 



