124 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Micro-organisms and Disease. 
It is a fact, not yet acknowledged by the scientific world, 
or the medical faculty—a fact, nevertheless, which I am in 
a position to prove by numerous examples—that what are 
considered the most deadly microbes in connection with 
various forms of disease can be-entirely ignored, where a 
rational form of cure is adopted, and no medicine whatever 
need be given to the patient ; the cure being more effectual, 
and the system at the same time is given greater vitality— 
as opposed to the weakening, and not seldom destructive, 
effects of powerful drugs. 
What then becomes of the deadly invoice Being 
simply an evidence, and not the “ origin” of disease, they 
have no power for ill in the face of the healthy tissue 
established under a naturally regenerative system of cure. 
They are expelled both through the resumption of its 
normal action by that wonderful . health preserver, the 
skin; and by the usual processes of worn-out matter 
“passing off by the alimentary system. My final proposition 
(of a series published in 1898) in relation to bees will show 
what momentous changes can be created by developing a 
new condition of vitality. 
Now, if microbes were the “origin” of disease, such 
cures would be impossible. It is, however, evident from 
the facts I present both now and hereafter, that micro- 
organisms are solely the “ effect” of disease ; though they 
may be, and often are, a cause of infection where a 
lowered vitality affords them encouragement. 
‘New Light on a Dark Subject. 
I am now presenting my readers with a number of 
propositions in regard to the origin, general development, 
and treatment of foul brood, from a thoroughly practical 
