86 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



Take the so called diphtheria germ, and the barrels 

 of antitoxin that have been manufactured to destroy 

 this germ and its poison. It now develops that bac- 

 teriologists themselves are in doubt as to having dis- 

 covered the guilty bug. Inquiry among them will 

 convince the reader that for several years they have 

 been disputing among themselves, some claiming that 

 the germ first decided upon is the cause of diph- 

 theria, and others claiming other germs. Some claim 

 that it requires a mixture of these germs. Admit- 

 ting for the moment that germs cause diphtheria, 

 the bacteriologists could not tell to-day what germ 

 produces the disease. Here again we have an antitoxin 

 for the destruction of a germ or its poison before such 

 germ or poison is discovered? Yes. 



Again, bacteriologists themselves admit there are 

 many cases of diphtheria when no germ can be found. 



Bubonic Plague. 



While bacteriologists claim this disease is caused by 

 a germ, it is well known there is no germ that will pro- 

 duce such a disease, yet the modern bacteriologists have 

 prepared and used an antitoxin which they inject into 

 the system to cure the black shadow of the east, as the 

 plague is sometimes called. 



It is well known there is no germ that will cause 

 hydrophobia. Green's Pathology, page 311, says: "No 

 hydrophobia organism has yet been discovered." And 

 we have an antitoxin for the destruction of such a 

 germ? Yes, Pasteur, a Frenchman, established such 

 a treatment several years ago. 



