72 MICROBES AtfD HEALTH. 



presents facts to show that the modern doctrine of 

 bacteriology is a gigantic mistake, and states that the 

 various microbes play a beneficent role in the economy 

 of nature. 



As Doctor Bantock and other eminent authorities as- 

 sure us the germs which have come to be regarded as 

 the cause of the most virulent disease are constantly 

 swarming in perfectly healthy people, and in their de- 

 crescense (diminishing) are frequently attended with 

 unfavorable results, there is good grounds for believing 

 them to be necessary and beneficent. 



Even that great germ theorist, Doctor Osier, says: 

 "It should be strongly emphasised that those bacteria 

 which cause disease are only a few species, all other 

 contributing to our welfare in countless ways." "Only 

 a few species cause disease ?" Yes. Why does Doctor 

 Osier say this, simply because he is only able to find 

 a few species in diseased tissue, for, as stated on page 

 48, such tissue supplies nourishment for a few species 

 only. Strange this brilliant man cannot see that these 

 "few species" are the result and not the cause of dis- 

 ease. Doctor Osier admits that the so called pneu- 

 monia germ is present in twenty per cent of healthy 

 people. 



Kijanitzin claims that animals placed in sterile air 

 emaciate and die in a few days. That in breathing 

 ordinary air the germs inhaled yield their ferments to 

 the action of the tissues of the body, and these ferments 

 are necessary to promote oxygenation. If the microbe's 

 supply is shut off the ferments disappear from the 

 blood, and death ensues. 



