MICROBES AND HEALTH. 



may be lightning pains, neuralgia, rheumatism, head- 

 ache, dizziness, spasms, hysteria, bad taste in the mouth, 

 jaundice, coated tongue, foul breath, and many other 

 manifestations, all the result of dyspepsia, accumulated 

 poisons in the system, bad air, lack of exercise, etc. 



Why so many indications from the same cause? 



Because of our several powers to resist. A diseased 

 stomach often causes pain in the lungs. That is be- 

 cause the same nerve supplies both organs. This nerve 

 is also connected with that part of the brain which con- 

 trols coughing, hence the irritation may produce cough. 

 Many think this is evidence of consumption. This is 

 the kind of consumption that patent-medicine fakes 

 cure. After free elimination and the great "benefit that 

 always follows, it is no trouble to get the usual letter 

 from the patient, who no doubt believes she has been 

 snatched from the brink of the grave. 



Cerebro-spinal meningitis, or inflammation of the 

 membrane covering the brain and cord, may be caused 

 by septic blood and retained waste. This condition 

 excites inflammation in the membranes mentioned, and 

 disease follows. 



As stated, medical authors do not account for many 

 diseases. They tell us they are due to the "preponder- 

 ance of the nervous system in the bodily conformation," 

 or "to hereditary neuropathic diathesis." We are told 

 that "gelatinous children of albuminous parents," are 

 especially liable to tubercular meningitis. 



Take those diseases, the cause of which has never 

 been given, and apply the following : 



