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in typhoid fever, or abscess of the appendix as in ap- 

 pendicitis. 



What have germs had to do with producing these dis- 

 eases? Nothing; absolutely nothing. After disease is 

 established germs are present, of course. This is ac- 

 cording to a universal law. Wherever there is dead 

 tissue, or any other form of dead matter, germs are 

 always present to reduce it to simpler forms to separ- 

 ate the elements or component parts and give them 

 back to nature, thus permitting them to aid in the 

 formation of something new. 



As stated elsewhere, it is by this plan the Divine 

 Intelligence carries on the world's economy. Every- 

 one understands that the dead support the living, but 

 first the elements of the dead must be separated and 

 given back to nature's laboratory. This change is 

 called fermentation or putrefaction, and can only 

 take place with the aid of a ferment. Nature has 

 designed that germs shall act as the ferment, hence 

 their universal presence. Earth, air and water are 

 swarming with them, and during disease they also 

 inhabit that part of the system that is affected. 



Pepsin of the stomach digests albumin; i. e., converts 

 into other substances. So also when tissue is de- 

 stroyed by disease, the presence of germs converts such 

 tissue into other substances, some into gases, some into 

 pus. This aids in elimination and in relieving the sys- 

 tem. Could not the dead tissue have been removed 

 without the presence of germs? No. Even the bac- 

 teriologists teach this, as shown by the following words, 

 iound on page 270, Green's Pathology: "All the pro- 



