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treatment (good as it may be, irrespective of the germ-theory 

 on wliich it has been based) pressed upon our attention on 

 the assumption that the germs of putrefaction and the germs 

 of disease are living organisms similar in nature. The 

 strange persistency with which this view is advocated is 

 not a little surprising when it entails the obvious contra- 

 diction that germs which do, under all ordinary circumstances 

 develop into well-known organic forms, should, when con- 

 cerned in the production of the diseases in question, induce all 

 the effects supposed to depend upon their prodigious growth 

 and multiplication, and yet never develop, never become visible. 

 And whilst Bacteria, and other organisms with which the 

 ve ever se " i I "''^''°'''" disease-germs are compared, flourish and reproduce 

 ited fhnf r ' '' ''' *"" much-vaunted germ-killing carbolised lotions \ yet 



carbolic acid continues to be recommended solely on ac- 

 count of its germ-killing powers, and the theory on which 

 the practice is based is thought to derive support from the 

 results obtained by the use of this agent. Surely no theory 

 could be weaker on which to base a successful method of 

 treatment ; and if, as its distinguished originator says \ its 

 general acceptance is principally hindered by the ' doubt of 

 Its fundamental principle,' then I would deliberately say that 



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^^.'>' °?S*-t ess obiect H ' r" ^" f'^'^''"''- ^^'^ '' --^oubtedly a very much 

 ;...1if.. Epidemic di.e ,t ^g^^bjecnonable form of the 'germ-theory,' though much additional 



evmence^vould be needed before we could accept the view that conta- 

 ScleswSin'r t\ '\'^^ '^^'^ multiplication of the contagious 

 E of 7?! ?'^ ^""'^^ °^ ^^'^ '^'"'^^"'"^ '^ff^^t'^d- The non-contaglous- 

 the oH i f ^^°°^, f^*^ '^^^t P^ge) is as irreconcileable with this as with 

 "ic othei form of the ' germ-theory.' 



tive TW°''' V^- ''^^'^- tl"^ ^" ^ '"'^'^^^t^^' pubHshed paper ' On the Rela- 

 inaln,r .f Y^"°f Substances in Preventing the Generation of Ani- 



aXei °'" ' ^^T^^P""""^ °^ ^^"'" ^^^™^^'' ~^'- Dougall says, ' If, as is 

 '"""Tihe rfl/'*^"rfl tives 25^"!^""'^ '""■''^ °^ putrefaction, then the strongest preven- 

 „bicb th ^haret'^J able " i r^'"' ^T^ antiseptics, and vice versa. Now, as seen in the 



"' ''■ heeW > '', '"^ °''^^P^'' ^ ^'^'-y "^«d'°C'-e Pla'^e as a preventive, 



senHn^ IS legitniiate to conclude that it stands no higher as an anti- 

 ='cptic. (p. ,_3j, ^ *= 



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