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immediately sent him to a chemist, who 

 years before had helped save his life from 

 the dread disease, syphilis, and, to his and 

 my amazement, a few deadly germs were 

 found in his blood. After a short treat- 

 ment, he was well — the test showed that he 

 was cured. Just pause and think of the 

 amount of agony and sorrow saved ! 



Another man, whom I know well, lay sick 

 — and the idea occurred to him that, per- 

 haps, there might be left in him some germs 

 of gonorrhoea, of which he had supposed 

 himself cured thirty years before. He sent 

 for a most distinguished genito-urinary 

 specialist, and right in the urethra was 

 found a hard cyst, and, when cut open and 

 put under a microscope, in its center were 

 gonococci. A germ, like the seed in the 

 mummy, three thousand years ago, never 

 dies, for it propagates its progeny and its 

 family is immortal. 



Some years ago, three eminent surgeons 

 were examining me, the object in view 

 being an operation for a blow over the kid- 

 neys, which had burst a blood vessel and 

 left a large blood clot. They told me that if 



