128 MICKOBES AND HEALTH. 



water, or putrescent (decayed) food, or through its 

 excessive generation within the body as by unusual 

 waste tissue, or by an obstructed elimination of normal 

 waste such as results of bad ventilation, or the mis- 

 use of alcoholic liquors. And I showed that zymotic 

 poisons (poisons resulting from diseased fermentation), 

 which have no action on pure blood, will increase by 

 seizing upon this appropriate pabulum (accumulated 

 waste in the system), multiply in it, thus setting up 

 a zymosis (diseased fermentation) in pure blood, just 

 the same as the growth and multiplication of yeast- 

 cells take place at the expense of the nitrogenous mat- 

 ter in wort, and affects the transformation of sugar 

 into alcohol." (Wort is unfermented infusion of malt. 

 When fermented the sugar is converted into alcohol 

 and it becomes beer.) 



Prof. Carpenter says in substance that pure blood 

 or a healthy system is not affected by the poisons re- 

 sulting from diseased fermentation, but such poisons 

 will develop upon waste .matter if such waste accumu- 

 lates in the system, just the same as yeast-cells will 

 develop in the unfermented infusion of malt. On page 

 20 it is stated that the tissue change, repair and 

 waste, which takes place in the body, is a process of 

 fermentation. When the body is diseased the products 

 of such fermentation act as a specific poison or virus, 

 and by means of such specific virus disease may be 

 communicated from one to another. 



What is specific poison or virus ? It is a product of 

 dead tissue and may result from the destruction of 

 tissue during disease, or may be found in dead bodies. 



