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agreed that the consumption germ is the ultimate 

 cause of all so called tubercular processes." In this 

 connection we have only to remember that regarding 

 the cause of disease, bacteriologists are not "scientists." 



Regarding treatment, this same bacteriologist says: 

 "Many have recovered from consumption in spite of 

 treatment." This can only mean in spite of improper 

 or wrong treatment. Here the bacteriologists speak 

 with authority, for if there is any one who ought to 

 understand improper treatment, it is they. Again, the 

 article mentioned contains these words : "Others have 

 sacrificed life to the absurd emanations of unbalanced 

 brains." It is true that emanations from unbalanced 

 brains may destroy life, and it seems as though this 

 fact alone would set the bacteriologists to thinking. 

 The writer of the article says: "The finding of the 

 germ in the sputum is the important factor in diag- 

 nosis." 



Again he states, "We should not condemn a person 

 to death because a few consumptive germs have been 

 found in the sputum." 



Again, "There is no longer any doubt about the cause 

 of consumption. Scientists are agreed that the con- 

 sumptive germ is the ultimate cause of all so called 

 tubercular processes." 



Now we can understand how it is that "life is sacri- 

 ficed through the absurd emanations from unbalanced 

 brains." 



Such talks reminds us of the small boy's composi- 

 tion on anatomy, which began something like this : The 



