92 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



"Evidence of a similar character is given by Prof. 

 Adams in an address delivered at the meeting of the 

 Canadian Medical Association." 



The presence or absence of germs signifies but little 

 except to the bacteriologist, to whom germs are the 

 chief source of power. They are sounding the notes 

 of alarm to call the attention of the dear people to this 

 new danger, and save them from the horrible fate of 

 the streptococcus; and strange enough, each of these 

 sentinels, these sympathizers, is ready to prove his sin- 

 cerity by offering a means of escape in the form of an 

 antitoxin, prepared from dumb brutes. These anti- 

 toxins are manufactured by the bacteriologists them- 

 selves, who offer them for sale at a price that would 

 cause the Standard Oil Company to blush with shame. 

 Their real value can be expressed by the figure 0. 



For years, the more advanced( ?) bacteriologists have 

 been brooding in the laboratories over test tubes and 

 microscopes, working with the various liquid mediums, 

 raising little bugs, and by injecting them into animals 

 they have been trying to disclose the mysteries of dis- 

 ease. By this means they have daily arrived at new 

 and more important conclusions. These conclusions 

 have emanated from the sacred incubators, which were 

 presided over by the professors themselves. Many of 

 these incubators are in Germany, and the others ought 

 to be. These discoveries would be of vastly more bene- 

 fit if kept secret within the walls of the renowned insti- 

 tutions in which they were born. Bacteriologists pub- 

 lish sensational accounts of the dire evils which would 

 happen to the people if it were not for their deep study 



