130 MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



of fermentation are caused by a different ferment, and 

 is the result of a natural law. So, also, each of the 

 different infectious diseases is caused by a different 

 ferment in the form of a different poison, and is the 

 results of a natural law. 



Is there any evidence that a specific poison and not 

 a germ causes disease? Yes, and in obtaining such 

 evidence the hog was chosen as a proper animal upon 

 which to experiment, the operators claiming that the 

 hog is nearest to man, and surely there are some who 

 will not question this part of the statement. 



"Take a hog or a number of them, and inject them 

 with the so called cholera germ, there will be no re- 

 sults. They will never miss a feed. Now take some 

 virus from a cholera-stricken hog, kill all organisms 

 with carbolic acid. Now inject the virus into an- 

 other hog, and it will contract the true disease, hog 

 cholera. Now make a culture from one of the diseased 

 hogs, and the germ will be found in it, showing that 

 while the germs cannot produce disease they inhabit 

 .the body after disease is established." 



The same is true in man. According to the bacteri- 

 ologists the hogs injected with the germ should have 

 developed the disease, and those inoculated with the 

 virus should have developed blood-poison. This ex- 

 planation clears up the cause of all infectious disease, 

 while the germ theory only adds to the mystery, be- 

 cause the bacteriologists can find no germ to produce 

 disease in man. 



The question might be asked, what is the difference 

 whether a germ or a specific virus causes disease? 

 The specific virus causes fermentation, is just as sure 



