110 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



turn of mind; the loyalty and devotion which the 

 searcher after the eternal truths must have to coax from 

 nature her secrets. 



For years America has been the dumping ground 

 for more foreign therapeutic frauds than all the re- 

 maining nations of the earth. Continental Europe 

 seems to forget that every condition is the result of a 

 natural cause; that every disease is the result of a 

 natural cause, and that every cure is the result of a 

 natural cause. Yet, to this simple truth in philosophy, 

 we shall come at last, when the serum therapy and the 

 animal extract mania, which are dominated by unrea- 

 sonable teachings, unillumed and unregulated by scien- 

 tific intelligence shall have spent itself (at the cost of 

 the public) and gone the way of its predecessors. 



Dr. Metschnikoff. 



Doctor Metschnikoff is a Eussian. He is the one 

 who first gave out the theory of the white blood-cor- 

 puscles destroying germs. Like Doctor Koch, Metsch- 

 nikoff for a time posed as a leader, and there have been 

 a few American doctors so eager to follow in the foot- 

 steps of some foreigner that they considered it a mark 

 of distinction to quote Doctor Metschnikoff. 



Why are they silent regarding Dr. Metsehnikoff's 

 latest departure, which, according to recent published 

 reports, claim in substance that Prof. Metschnikoff 

 will discover a serum product of the lower animals 

 which will prolong human life to two hundred and 

 fifty years? The professor admits, however, that he 

 is not beyond the laboratory stage. 



