126 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



out limit. No names have been purposely selected or 

 mentioned. The object is to show the tendency of the 

 quack. 



Is serum therapy a fraud or not? In this world we 

 believe that perfect humanity is the highest ambition 

 of the creative power. That statement is rendered 

 indisputable from the perfect life sent to guide our 

 erring footsteps. Has the Divine Intelligence placed 

 in the hands of a few scheming operators the means of 

 reaching that higher plane? 



Modern improvements in hygiene may increase the 

 average duration of life, but it will not extend the 

 maximum, neither will elixirs, serums, antitoxins or 

 animal products prevent the natural decay that comes 

 with declining years. These simple truths will remain 

 and grow brighter after the collapsed germ theories, 

 and the departed serums have passed out of human 

 memory. 



Are germs the cause or the result of disease? the 

 result. 



All tissue destroyed by disease must be reduced- 

 converted into pus, gasses, etc., before it can be 

 eleminated. 



Bacteriologists admit this can only result from germ 

 action. 



In germ life the same system of repair and waste 

 takes place as in all other forms of living matter, the 

 waste produced by the germs is called ptomains and 

 bacteriologists claim these act as a poison. 



Some authorities claim it does not, yet admitting the 

 ptomains are poison, all bacteriology can claim is that 



