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MICROBES

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THE MICROBE-KILLER

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BY

WILLIAM RADAM

DISCOVERER OF THE " MICROBE-KILLER '

COlECHfflh REGIS SJL

REVISED EDITION

333/^

NEW YORK

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1895

COPYRIGHT BV

WILLIAM RADAM

1895

STETTINER, LAMBERT & C0„

ai, 14 « 16 READE ST.,

NEW YORK.

TO THE

:people of all nations, all creeds and classes,

WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM
DISEASE WHATSOEVER ;

TO

SCIENCE, AND TO POSTERITY,

THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.

PEEFAOE TO THE EEYISED EDITION.

The first edition of this book, published in 1890, gave
the world a new theory and established new principles.
Its teachings were that there is only one disease— decay ;
that it is caused by fermentation; and that all fermenta-
tion is caused by microbes. It was sent forth as a mes-
senger that the doors of Science had been opened, and
the seed scattered has borne abundant fruit.

The three or four so-called diseases then admitted by
scientists to be caused by microbes have multiplied, until
the number includes all diseases, and the author's theory
has been permanently established. But a book written
in the infancy of a new discovery is necessarily incom-
plete. Scarcely had the first edition appeared when the
author began the preparation of the revised edition.
Step by step he proved the correctness of his new prin-
ciples, until they can be no longer doubted. Ceaselessly
he toiled in his laboratory with the fermentation of dis-
ease, propagating the microbes which caused that fer-
mentation, watching them grow in physicians' medicines
or die in his own antiseptics, or photographing them w^ith
the object of making them visible to everybody.

The results of those years of patient investigation are
given in this revised edition. His photographs of the
microbes which cause the fermentation of the various
so-called diseases are reproduced with exactness, making
a valuable contribution to medical science. In place of
the cumbersome appendix, which treated of subjects
then held as possibilities, but which are now generally
admitted, are special chapters giving the results of the
author's personal investigations.

No attempt has been made to make the revised edition
a literary effort. The author has a message to give to
the world, to science, to humanity, and it is given in
simple words and in the plainest manner possible.

William Radam.

New York City, March, 1895.

IISTTRODUCTIOK

No apology is needed in presenting this book to sci-
ence and the pubHc. The theory is new, but the argu-
ments are forceful and the proofs decisive. The discov-
ery unfolded is of interest to all humanity, because it
marks an advance in science and opens a new era of
health and happiness.

The object I have in view is plain and can be readily
defined. Circumstances of early life placed me in close
commune with Nature. I studied her ways and observed
her laws, little thinking at the time that the lessons
learned amid plants and flowers would ultimately lead to
results of vast importance to myself and later to the
whole world. Business considerations first set me on the
path, a tasteful interest held me to it with steadfast care,
and the prospect of a brilliant discovery in the distance
furnished energy and zeal to progress toward what prom-
ised an enduring benefit to all mankind.

After long and careful experiments, after days and
nights of anxious toil, fraught with delusions and disap-
pointments which only scientists can comprehend, the
goal was reached. The efforts of opponents and rivals to
thwart my success failed. Their warfare has changed
to respectful admiratiou, if not always silence, and ere a
decade passes they will join hands with me in hastening
the ever onward march of science.

Many men, among them some of the most prominent
in the field of science, elaborate a theory and then work
with one end in view till they establish it, or think they
establish it. My methods were not of that character.
I fashioned no hypothesis. I did not look for something
previously outlined in the mind. I simply studied and
investigated, and the light at length broke in upon me

VIU INTRODUCTION.

and opened out a discovery that I at once recognized as
being of the utmost interest and importance. I tested
its value and found nothing wanting. It withstood the
severest trial and maintained itself under all circum-
stances. It promised to reform existing methods in the
treatment of disease, to expose the errors that have been
for centuries in vogue, to simplify human knowledge in
fields of vital moment to the health and welfare of my
fellow-men. Sweeping in its influence, it was simple in
its nature, and calculated to wipe out all the complexi-
ties of hygienic and curative principles by its oneness and
intensity.

Ill-health had long held me in its toils. Every cura-
tive resource known to medical science had failed to
afford me relief. My condition was growing worse, and
hope was well-nigh abandoned, when, in the line of my
life-long studies, I found something that did what physi-
cians and their materia medica had not done. I applied
to my own case principles which I had learned were
those of Nature herself, and they profited me where art
had not availed. As soon as this result was realized,
and I had leisure to weigh the full force of my discovery,
I began to look backward and to reason from the results
of my experience back to first causes. My sufferings
had been complex, my ailments had been various, and,
according to medical theory, very different in origin and
kind. But one form of treatment cured me, and the in-
ference was inevitable that, if one method sufficed for a
f-ew diseases, it would probably suffice for more, and
possibly for all. I recalled the drift of my inquiries and
of my knowledge in the plant world, and formulated the
idea that all disease might perhaps be the consequence of
a single cause. Following up this train of thought, I
had no difficulty, in course of time, in strengthening the
theory by practical experiment. By observation and in-
quiry I soon had the soundness of the suggestion suffi-
ciently established to carry conviction to any unpreju-
diced mind. But more was needed. If all diseases are
traceable to one cause, all should alike yield to one mode

INTRODUCTION. IX

of treatment. Of the truth of the former I had no doubt,
but the latter could only be proved by experiment and
by satisfactory results ensuing from actual trial. The
opportunity for this soon came. The remarkable fact
that I, a chronic invalid, abandoned by the doctors be-
cause unrelieved by any of their medicaments, had cured
myself, speedily became known abroad among my neigh-
bors and friends, and some of them came to learn
whether I could do for them what I had done already so
well for myself. Thus was I afforded the chance I
sought. I cautiously gave them the benefit of my dis-
covery, and with only one uniform result. All were
cured. Their arguments had been answered with proof.

My position was made at once impregnable. My
knowledge of Nature's laws had served me in a dire
extremity. The experience so gained had led me to
outline a theory which reason convinced me was correct,
and finally that theory had been established by incon-
trovertible testimony, in the course of which no flaw or
error could be detected.

There now remained but one thing of much weight to
be decided. It was apparent that I held at my disposal
a discovery of no small importance and value. Should
I reserve it to myself, or give it to the public ? Either
course presented a difficulty. If I retained it I should
lay myself open very justly to the charge of withhold-
ing something replete with advantage to mankind, and
if I should publish it such a fundamental upturning of
all existing methods and practices in medical science
would follow that I must be prepared to encounter
violent antagonism and to defend myself against the
disciples of a system that had a record of ages to sus-
tain it.

If nothing else, a sense of duty to others must alone
have speedily solved that question. I certainly had no
right to retain an exclusive knowledge of anything
calculated to benefit others, and neither had I any right
to allow some personal inconveniences to stand in the
way of such a course. My resolution was accordingly

X INTRODUCTION.

soon ma'de. I extended the operations of my discoveiy
so as to leave no possible room for doubt as to its uni-
versal application, and then I determined to submit the
whole case to the public.

This book is the consequence of that resolve. In its
pages I have given a detailed statement of the new
discovery which points to a unity in the cause and
treatment of disease. From day to day steps are being
made by advocates of the old theories which advance
them slowly in the direction I have taken. Intermit-
tent fever, cholera, scarlet fever, influenza, and the
recently named ^' Grippe," as well as other diseases, are
acknowledged to be due to the presence of microbes, but
the time will come when the people must free them-
selves from the bondage of ignorance now urged upon
them, to accept the undoubted fact that all disease is
due to the same cause, and that treatment, to be bene-
ficial, must be directed to the single object of stopping
fermentation in the system by destroying the micro-
organisms that give rise to it. This is no longer a
theory subject to refutation or needing proof. In the
subsequent pages I have endeavored to bring it within
the grasp of the most superficial reader, but I have also
furnished irrefutable testimony to its truth and stability.
It is not an hypothesis, but a demonstrated law, and its
reality is well fixed by practical experiment and by the
evidence of accomplished facts.

The subject is of interest not only to a few, but to the
many ; to everybody, in fact, who may be subject to
disease or ailments of any kind. It promises relief
where cures have hitherto been deemed impossible, and
it places the sick and ailing in a position where they
shall be free from the expense and uncertainty of cus-
tomary methods, and able to follow^ out the only known
rational treatment for themselves.

I do not expect to be exempt from criticism. On the
contrary, I invite inquiry and examination in a spirit of
honest impartiality. Physicians will probably act under
the customary impulse of doubting, possibly of con-

INTRODUCTION. XI

(le inning, until my remedy shall have been subjected by
them to the full light of actual test — and that I solicit.
At the same time it is but just, alike to myself and to
the profession of medicine, to add that many members
among the most progressive in that profession have
already accepted my teaching and availed themselves of
my discovery.

Thus far no explanation or statement of it has been
given to the world except in brief notices and super-
ficial sketches for the benefit of those who have dis-
played an interest in the subject. This book was there-
fore necessary. It could not have been omitted, neither
should it be delayed It is a challenge to the world of
science, and a help, perhaps even it may be a salvation,
to the sick. It will be a revelation and a source of
instruction to all. It will work a reform in the treat-
ment of disease, and a commotion among the disciples
of antiquated teachings. I understand its force and
can estimate its influence. I realize already the criti-
cisms that it must encounter ; but I ask for it a careful
perusal, and can wait w^ith equanimity for the time,
near at hand, when it will receive the approval and
indorsement of every impartial reader.

TABLE OF CONTEIsTTS.

Preface to the Revised Edition v

Introduction vii

CHAPTER I.
The Cause of All Disease 1

CHAPTER II.
Effects of Climate 8

CHAPTER III.
Inheritance of Disease 17

CHAPTER IV.
Habitat of Disease Germs 21

CHAPTER V.
Personal Experiences .^ 21

CHAPTER VI. .
Development of the Microbe-Killer 42

CHAPTER VII.
Failure of Medical Science 64

CHAPTER VIII.
History of my Discovery 74

CHAPTER IX.
How Disease can be Cured and Life Preserved 82

XIV TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER X.
The Blood 105

CHAPTER XI.
The Stomach 110

CHAPTER Xn.
Consumption ; its Cause and Cure 114

CHAPTER Xni.
Croup and Diphtheria in Children 121

CHAPTER XIV.
Characteristics of Disease Germs 125

CHAPTER XV.
General Observations and Summary 131

CHAPTER XVI.

Imitations of, and Persecutions against, the Microbe-Killer 144

CHAPTER XVII.
A Newspaper's Investigation of the Microbe-Killer 165

CHAPTER XVIII.
A Report on Certain Experiments 187

LIST OF PHOTOMIOEOGBAPHS,

PLATE I.

No.

1. Mucor pusillus,

2. Mucor rhizopodiformis.

3. Mucor corymbifer.

4. Fusisporium moschatum.

PLATE II.

5. Sarcina aurantiaca.

6. Bacillus violaceus.

7. Cladothrix dichotoma.

8. Cladothrix nivea.

PLATE III.

9. Human blood in health.

10. Human blood full of germs and microbes.

11. Human blood full of germs and microbes.

12. Human blood full of germs and microbes.

PLATE IV.

13. Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus.

14. Staphylococcus coccinea flava.

15. Bacillus pyogenes foetidus liquefaciens.

16. Bacillus pyogenes foetidus.

PLATE V.

18. Pyloric opening of stomach.

19. Sarcina ventriculi.

.20. Micrococcus tetragenus.

PLATE VI.

21. Bacillus acidi lactici.

22. Bacillus cyanogenes.

23. Bacillus lactis erythrogenes.

24. Bacillus oxytocus perniciosus,^

XVI LIST OF PHOTOMICROGRAPHS.

PLATE Vn.

No,

25. Spirillum Milleri.

26. Leptothrix buccalis.

27. Achorion Schoenleinii (favus).

28. Microbes producing dandruff.

PLATE VIII.

29. Micrococcus syphilitica.

30. Microbes producing gravel.

31. Uric acid.

32. Bacilli in urine.

PLATE IX.

33. Micrococcus beri-beri flavus.

34. Bacillus of leprosy in skin.

35. Streptococcus erysipelatus.

36. Bacillus diphtheria (Loffier).

PLATE X.

37. Bacillus tussis convulsivae.

38. Bacillus neapolitanus.

39. Bacillus endocarditidis griseus.

40. Bacillus butyricus.

PLATE XI.

41. Diplococcus pneumoniae (Fraenkel's).

42. Pneumococcus (Friedlander's).

43. Bacillus typhi abdominal is (showing flagella).

44. Bacillus typhi abdominalis.

PLATE XII.

45. Tubercle bacilli (in sputum).

46. Tubercle bacilli (in sputum), enlarged.

47. Tubercles in lung.

48. Tubercles in kidney.

PLATE XIII.

50. Diseased human lung.
52. Wall of tubercle cavity.

LIST OF PHOTOMICROGRAPHS. XVII

PLATE XIV.

No.

53. Bacillus of carcinoma (cancer).

54. Small cancerous cells.

55. Cancer of the breast (showing formation).

56. Cancer from the breast.

PLATE XV.

57. Comma bacillus.

58. Comma bacillus.

59. Spirillum cholerae Asiaticae.

60. Spirillum cholerae Asiaticae, enlarged.

PLATE XVI.

61. Spirillum Finkler et Prior.

62. Spirilla vibriosa.

63. Spirillum concentricum,

64. Bacillus crassus sputigenus.

PLATE XVII.

65. Bacillus anthracis.

66. Bacillus anthracis.

67. Bacillus anthracis (showing spores).

68. Bacillus anthracis in kidney.

PLATE XVIII.

70. Tapeworm with head.

71. Eggs of tapeworm.

72. Trichina spiralis in flesh.

PLATE XIX.

73. Micrococci trachoma conjuncta.

74. Bacillus eclampsias ( Afanassiew) .

75. Bacillus der Wildseuche (Kitt).

76. Micrococcus de mastitis.

PLATE XX.

77. Proteus Zenkeri.

78. Spirillum concentricum (showing flagella).

79. Bacillus cuniculicida Havaniensis.

80. Bacillus cavicida (Brieger's).

Xviii LIST OF PHOTOMICROGRAPHS.

PLATE XXI.

No.

81. Bacillus mallei.

82. Bacillus des Rauschbrandes (showing spores),

83. Bacillus of Texas fever (Billings).

84. Bacillus of hog disease.

PLATE XXII.

85. Bacillus of tetanus (Kitasato).

86. Bacillus erysipelatis porci.

87. Bacillus typhi murium.

88. Bacillus capsulatus (Pfeiffer).

PLATE XXIII.

89. Bacillus of mouse disease (Laser).

90. Bacillus subtilis (Ehrenberg).

91. Bacillus of grouse disease (Klein).

92. Bacillus of ferret disease (Eberth).

PLATE XXIV.

93. Micrococcus prodigiosus.

94. Vibrio aquatilis.

95. Vibrio saprophiles (Weibel).

96. Spirillum Metschnikovii.

PLATE XXV.

97. Bacillus enteritidis.

98. Proteus vulgaris.

99. Bacillus alvei.

100. Bacillus indicus ruber.

PLATE I.

1. MUCOR PUSILLDS.

(MOULD FUNGI.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radara.

2. MUCOR RHIZOPODIFORMIS.

(MOULD FUNGI.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

8. MUCOR CORYMBIFER.

(MOULD FUNGI.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

4. FUSISPORIUM MOSCHATUM.

(MOULD FUNGI.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

THE CAUSE OF ALL DISEASE.

CHAPTEE I.

" Would we the mystery of this world know,
We must to Nature's deepest recess go."

— Shakespeare.

If we attempt to trace back any great element of
knowledge to its primary source, we find ourselves in-
evitably led up to Nature. Not the Sciences only, but
the Arts, the appliances, aids, and engines of modern
civilization, the devices of Humanity, the weapons with
which natural forces themselves are overcome and by
which wondrous powers are controlled and utilized, are;
but the outcome of knowledge that sprang from intricate
causes in the material world around us, and which ex-
periment and experience have put into practical form.

A great book of revelation has lain open before the
human intellect at all times and throughout all ages,
which, if properly studied, contains the germ of all
knowledge. Its pages are the blue skies and the green
fields ; they are seen in the rocks and the oceans, in the
rivers and the rain, in the air and the clouds, in the
sunshine and the darkness. In Nature's laws we have
guides that put us on our way and indicate the course
that must be pursued if any useful goal is to be attained,
to ascertain how she destroys, what the destroying ele-
ment really is, in order that when we know the cause
we may go on and look for the remedy that will effec-
tually stop this destroying element.

We are apt to think that man in this nineteenth century

has arrived at a high degree of civilization. So perhaps

he has, but it is only relative. The possibilities of the

future cannot be divined. Yet the expenditure of hu-

1

2 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

man energy necessary to bring about even the present
condition of the race has been enormous, something
beyond computation, beyond, indeed, anything that the
mind can reaUze. Sometimes we hear of great discov-
eries being stumbled over unexpectedly, but such stories
are too often fiction.

To be successful we must learn from Nature how she
destroys. We are unable to say with certainty how
Nature begins her work, but we can see how she pro-
ceeds after she has begun, and we can carefully study
the processes employed in the never-ceasing law of
change. Nature is a teacher with an always open book
before us. Whoever ignores her book and her teach-
ings will fail, no matter to what science he may belong.
Organic bodies are adapted to the conditions that sur-
round them. Reference is made particularly to condi-
tions of atmosphere, temperature, and moisture. The
vegetation of the tropics is vastly different from that
in northern latitudes, and marine and aquatic plants
differ in construction from those which flourish in the
air as much ?.s fishes differ from the amphibia. In both
the animal and the vegetable kingdoms, again, parasites
exist in the utmost variety of form and in the greatest
number, plants passing through the whole course of
their existence on other plants, and both vegetable and
animal formations preying upon the highest forms of
organic life. Some are absolutely microscopical, not
visible to the naked vision, appearing as discoloration s
only under a low power, but developing into well- formed
organisms when submitted to the eye through the me-
dium of high magnifying instruments.

Microbes grow to their full size in a few moments, or
hours at the longest. They have two ways of propaga-
tion. From spores so minute that it requires the most
powerful microscopes to see them, they attain their
full growth in an incredibly short time. Then, in addi-
tion, suddenly a microbe will break into two parts, each
part a perfect microbe. These parts have the same
power of propagating by means of spores or of break-

THE CAUSE AND THE CURE OF ALL DISEASE. 3

ing in twain. (See Plate X., No. 40, bacillus butyricus
of rancid butter ; also Plate XVII. , No. 67, bacillus
anthracis, showing spores ; and Plate XXL, No. 82,
spores and bacillus of cattle disease, which plainly
shows how the bacilh develop from the germs or spores,
then break in two.) So the work of multiplication
^oes on. Where one microbe existed yesterday there
are thousands to-day. To-morrow there will be mil-
lions.

It is meaningless to speak of microbes as a class, as it
is to speak of animals as a class. There are probably
as many different kinds of microbes as there are differ-
ent kinds of animals and plants. They are in the air
we breathe ; the water we drink ; in the body itself ;
and, in fact, they exist where there are air, heat, and
moisture, which are necessary for life. Microbes which
do not grow in the human body are harmless. Some
are larger than others ; some are one shape, some an-
other ; some multiply more rapidly than others, and
some feast upon others as large fish feast upon the
smaller ones.

In general, microbes are scavengers. Were it not for
them nothing would ever decay, and undoubtedly in
time the gases in the air and the chemicals in the soil
would be exhausted, because once an element left the
soil it would never return. But Nature provided the
microbes as the medium of return. They begin work
upon an object or body, and immediately fermentation
begins. They are the cause, fermentation the result..
Wood begins to decay — that is fermentation. Examine
more closely and you will find the microbes in the fer-
mentation. In a measure fermentation is the digested
food of the microbe. A piece of cheese begins to give
out a bad odor ; raw meat soon decays — it is the
microbes that have started the fermentation, and the
fermentation is the decay. So with every article ima-
ginable.

As long as there is life and the proper conditions exist,
microbes cease to work injury. But let weakness come

4 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

or life die out, and the microbes are at work. How do>
they get there ? From the air, from the water, and
from the food. Possibly they create themselves there.
Were it not for microbes, wood would never decay, meat-
would never spoil, and there could be no such thing pos.
sible as fermentation.

To succeed in causing fermentation, microbes must
have air, heat, and moisture. If you deprive them of
any or all of these necessities you prevent their opera-
tion. Thus it is that frozen meat will keep for a long
time. Cold prevents the operations of the microbes, and
thus fermentation is arrested. Substances hermetically
sealed )h liquids that contain no microbes, and in which
it would be impossible for microbes to live, can be kept a
long time, and perhaps, under perfect conditions, forever.

If you can keep microbes away from substances or
prepare them so that microbes cannot touch them, those
substances can be kept indefinitely. Antiseptics accom-
plish this, but the antiseptics known to medical science
are not always reliable. If they happen to be so they
are necessarily harmful. An egg placed in pure alcohol
would never become bad, neither would any kind of
meat similarly placed. But pure alcohol — or diluted
alcohol, which is inefficacious — injures eggs and meat so
that they never could be used. So it is with carbolic acid
and the other disinfectants.

So far we have spoken exclusively of substances as
affected by microbes. It is necessary to take but a
single step and a new field is opened. Fermentation
destroys. So does disease. The decay of a piece of
meat is fermentation produced by microbes. So is the
decay of the lungs in tuberculosis — or consumption, as
it is commonly called— simply fermentation. It is the
same with other parts of the body. Decay in different
portions will produce different symptoms, and through
ignorance physicians have originated names and rem-
edies supposed to cure the different symptoms.

Anything that will prevent the action of microbes
must arrest fermentation. Strong antiseptics will do-

THE CAUSE AND THE CURE OF ALL DISEASE. 5

this. Freezing the lungs would render inactive the
microbe of tuberculosis, the same as boiling would stop
fermentation in the stomach. But all these would, of
course, immediately kill the patient ; and to kill or
render inactive the microbes without injury to the pa-
tient is what is to be sought.

There is absolutely no antiseptic used by physicians
which will bring this about. Generally the medicines
they use to arrest disease, instead of hindering the pro-
gress of the microbes, actually give them additional
food. I have proven this scores of times by placing a
little fermentation of some kind in their medicines.
The microbes of the fermentation actually lived and
propagated in the very medicine that was supposed to
cure the disease they caused.

With the Microbe-Killer it is entirely different. It is
not a medicine, but an antiseptic gas which is death to
all microbes. Water, which will hold eight hundred
times its own volume of this gas, is charged with it, and
the patient simply drinks a wineglassf ul of the gas-
impregnated water three or four times a day. The
antiseptic gas gradually escapes from the water and
accumulates in the body. Gradually it forces its way
into the blood, which is the channel by which the mi-
crobes go to different parts of the body. The microbes,
coming in contact with the antiseptic gas, within a few
hours become inactive and finally die. Through the
blood the gas reaches every portion of the body, and the
result is that fermentation soon ceases. Then the body
throws off the fermentation already formed, and the pa-
tient gets well, no matter whether the disease has been
tuberculosis, catarrh, cancer, gravel, rheumatism, or
:any of the diseases physicians have tried to cure with
separate remedies.

Antiseptic drugs fail because they are harmful. But
Eadam's Microbe-Killer is as harmless as water, while
the gas it contains is so thoroughly effective that, as
every dose kills microbes, the patient generally feels the
effect at once.

6 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER.

Such is the theory of the microbe that I gave to the
pubhc nearly seven years ago ; such is the theory that
was derided and scorned by scientists ; but such is the
theory to-day universally accepted, and proven, in spite
of the obstacles placed in my pathway, by long and pa-
tient investigations with the microscope upon different
so-called diseases.

In the previous argument we have shown conclusively
that all fermentation is caused by microbes. Tuber-
culosis is fermentation of the lungs, so is catarrh fer-
mentation, so are rheumatism and cancer fermentation
— so, in fact, is every disease simply fermentation, and
all this fermentation is caused by microbes. This reason-
ing in itself is convincing, but there is more proof. Dur-
ing many years of patient and careful investigation— in^
vestigation that many would have given up as an endless
task — I have actually discovered many of the different
microbes which cause the different kinds of so-called
diseases! There are the microbes that produce dandruff,
stone in the bladder (see Plate VII., No. 28, microbes
producing dandruff ; and Plate VIII., microbes produc-
ing gravel or stone in the bladder), gall stone, and other
products, which generally look like a sediment or mineral
deposit to the naked eye. But I soon discovered, after
preparing those sediment-like substances for the micro-
scope, that they, and in fact everything which passes
from the human body, is the result of life. As a lump
of thick, sour milk, when dissolved to a thin, watery
fluid, shows nothing but microbes (see Plate VI. , Nos.
21, 22, 23, and 24), so does the expectoration of sick
people, the pus of a wound (see Plate IV., Nos. 13, 14,
15, and 16), or any fermented matter that passes from
the human body, in whatever shape, form, or color, in-
dicate the result of small life called microbes.

The photomicrographs I use to illustrate this book
clearly demonstrate this fact. In my laboratory I
always have living microbes for experiments, and when-
ever I find any special class worth bringing to public
notice I photograph them. The illustrations of human

THE CAUSE AND THE CURE OE^ ALL DISEASE. 7

blood full of microbes demonstrate what there is in that
blood which causes disease. Be disease in whatever part
of the body it may, it is always in the blood (see Plate
III.). The blood is the life. When that is clean and
pure, sickness is impossible.

CHAPTER II.

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE.

How do these atmospheric microbes first come into
existence ? Some investigators still maintain that their
carefully conducted experiments show the truth of the
theory of spontaneous generation.

From a strictly scientific, or especially from a biolo-
gical, point of view this question is of vast importance,
but in the present consideration it is of less moment.
We are dealing, not with the origin of life, but with the
presence and destruction of microbes, and can afford to
regard the more abstruse problem as one of incidental
interest only. This, however, we certainly know — that
atmospheric microbes may, and do, come from the earth
and vegetation, or from the lungs and exhalations of ani-
mals. We have no reason for saying that they may not
multiply in the air itself, but we know that they are
ever floating about us in inconceivable numbers, and
that while they are more numerous in cities and towns
than in the open country, and in wet places than in a
dry soil, yet they are found appreciably everywhere,
except, so far as we can ascertain, on the tops of high
mountains. Moisture is favorable to their propagation
and existence. Some are adapted to live in cold regions,
but more require a warm temperature. Changes of
weather seem also to favor them, and a marked rise or
fall in the barometer has been noticed to affect their
numbers and vitality.

I have observed that in plants which I had kept too
warm, and then suddenly exposed to cold, a fungoid
growth could be detected in twenty -four hours./ The
leaves would then change in color and either shrivel up
or wilt. The roots would fail to take - up moisture, the

PLATE II.

ppl
%i^'

kV«^.

SARCINA AURANTIACA.

(FOUND IN AIR AND WATER.)

1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

CLADOTHBIX DICHOTOMA.

(in stagnant water.)
1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Eadam.

6. BACILLUS VIOLACEUS.

(POUND IN SPREE WATER AT BERLIN.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

8. CLADOTHRIX NIYEA.

(IN STAGNANT WATER.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE. \)

spongioles being apparently paralyzed and their func-
tions destroyed. Examining them carefully it could be
seen that something like a process of fermentation was
going on around them — in other words, that fungoid
exhalations or microbes were gathering upon them,
that these gradually extended through the rootlets and
sap, while those on the leaves were reaching out to the
stems and buds. All the green color of the plant dis-
appeared, the coloring matter apparently yielding to
chemical decomposition under the exhausting influence
of microbes, and finally the plant would turn yellow,
droop, and die.

Place a child predisposed to indisposition, or even a
healthy person, in circumstances equally unfavorable,
and the consequences are similar. A change from a
warm to a cold atmosphere is one of the most c<3mmon
causes of disease. The conditions of life in this country
are especially calculated to furnish ample illustrations of
this. In summer people are apt to counteract the effects
of heat by removing portions of their covering and seek-
ing a cool resting place, glad sometimes of a current of
air which feels refreshing yet is fraught with peril. In
winter most of us live in overheated houses, from which
necessity takes us often suddenly into a wet or cold ex-
ternal atmosphere. The consequence is a cold, or in-
flammation of the lungs, or worse. A cough is one of
the first symptoms, and on examination it is found that
a peculiar microbe has attached itself to the bronchial
tubes or upper air passages, producing an irritation, and
the cough is Nature's effort to get rid of it. Or it may
become attached to the mucous membrane of the nose,
giving rise to what is variously known as ^^ cold in the
head," coryza, and acute catarrh. It can readily be
understood that in the latter case it is more easy to re-
move the cause of the trouble, but where there is a
cough the disease germs may spread downward to the
lungs, extending their influence throughout the tissues,
and producing bronchitis or pneumonia as the case
might be.

10 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Ill the course of my observations and experiments I
have often observed that in times when coughs were
prevalent, and when what appeared to be ordinary colds
assumed the character of an epidemic, vegetation was
also affected Plants did not flourish in their customary
manner. The young leaves chiefly suffered ; sometimes
evidences of the existence of microbes became visible on
the more tender parts, and the whole plant would as-
sume a stricken and unhealthy appearance.

The changes which generally occur in springtime —
changes not only in temperature but in the degree of
moisture or dryness of the atmosphere — are especially
calculated to produce disease in vegetation exactly as
they do in man, and the affection is more severe and
more diflicult to combat.

Plants kept in places where they were away from the
full exhilarating influence of light, or in an atmosphere
where there was no free circulation of air, would speed-
ily become sickly, and their growth, if any, would be
weak and unhealthy.

Man, submitted to similar conditions, suffers in the
same way, and children brought up in close places, or
even being made to work in them, where air and light
are insufficiently supplied, become stunted in growth.
The tissues of their bodies are weakened, their senses are
not fully developed, and their minds are imperfectly
formed. Poverty, crime, and much misery are too often
the lot of such persons, and all their misfortune may
be attributed to the fact of their having been confined in
surroundings where disease germs are so abundant that
the microbes necessarily obtain access to the blood and
are circulated with it through all parts of the system.

I may here direct attention to two well-known dis-
eases, whooping cough (see Plate X., No. 37) and diph-
theria (see Plate IX., No. 36), by way of illustrating
further some points that I have mentioned. Both of
these may result from infection, and one, if not both,
may also arise from the use or presence of impure water
or decaying vegetation. They are, however, produced

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE. 11

by a different form of germ, although in each case the
seat of the trouble is very local and well defined. It is
always primarily in the throat, but the microbe that pro-
duces diphtheria cannot engender a whooping cough,
and, vice versa, the germ that gives rise to whooping
cough never excites diphtheria. That they do not bring
about disease in everybody who inhales them is simply
due to the fact that the condition of the throat is not
favorable to their development, or that the vital powers
of the individual are sufficiently strong to resist them.
It will be understood, therefore, how it is that almost all
cases of diphtheria are preceded by what is called a cold.

The special germ of this terrible disease has been iden-
tified and isolated by the director of the Pasteur Insti-
tute and M. Versin. They have succeeded in reproduc-
ing the disease in rabbits, fowls, pigeons, and guinea-
pigs by inoculating these animals with cultured mi-
crobes. They have also been able to isolate the special
product of fermentation caused by these microbes, and
by using that, without the germ itself, they have brought
about all the symptoms of diphtheria, including the
difficulty of respiration and paralysis of the muscles.
They have further shown that a person who is perfectly
healthy may inhale these microbes with impunity, but
that if there be any weakness of the mucous membrane
of the throat the disease is speedily developed. This ac-
counts for the security enjoyed by many people, and also
for the frequency of the disease after attacks of cold,
scarlet fever, or measles. It points to the necessity for
giving attention to sore throats or slight ailments when
diphtheria is prevalent, and to the necessity of fre-
quently washing the mouth and throat with such an
efficacious destroyer of microbes and micro-organisms as
that which, in my hands and among thousands of my
patients and correspondents, has not yet failed.

Irrigations such as those mentioned should be made
with copious quantities of the fluid, a rule which my own
experience has taught me, and which is recognized by
all who have used less powerful parasiticides than mine.

12 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE- KILLER.

The New York State Board of Health on one occasion
recommended sulphurous- acid gas— the fumes of burn-
ing sulphur — as a preventive and disinfectant for diph-
theria. But the special germ, the streptococcus diph-
therialis, is not destroyed by that gas. It yields to three
agents only — carbolic acid, corrosive sublimate, and my
microbe killer, and the first two of these are powerful
poisons and as dangerous to the patient as they are to
the microbe.

It is worthy of mention here that diphtheria is not
confined to members of the human family. Animals
are liable to it, and a case is mentioned where a kitten
conveyed the disease- to four members of one family be-
fore the truth Became known and the animal could be
killed. The symptoms in that instance were unusually
virulent, but no deaths ensued.

Most of the microbes or bacteria that are to be found
in the atmosphere come from the ground, or from the
breath, or sputa, or persons of individuals. Heavy
rains tend to wash them out of the air, but, when thus
thrown to the soil, the moisture favors their increase,
and thus, as the ground dries, they may be carried back
into the atmosphere in increased numbers.

It is an error, however, to suppose that the atmosphere
is the principal nidus of the disease forms. Bacteria,
-microbes, and micro-organisms of all kinds exist in in-
finite numbers in the soil. Some observers consider
that to be their chief breeding place. All are not dis-
ease-producers, but all seem to exercise some function,
and the most plausible suggestion yet made upon this is
that, by inducing a process of fermentation in the soil,
they bring about chemical decompositions which liberate
elements that are necessary to the nutrition and devel-
opment of higher forms of life.

Among disease germs that are found in the soil, those
of typhoid fever (see Plate XI., Nos. 43 and 44), malaria,
and tetanus (see Plate XXII., No. 85) are most frequent,
and hence it is that the breaking up of new land,
especially in damp places, so frequently produces ague

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE. 13

or ^^ chills and fever" among local residents. It is a
popular error to suppose, therefore, that the earth
destroys microbes, and it seems to have arisen out of
the fact that dry soil renders them for a time compara-
tively innocuous.

The ground is the great resting and breeding place
of micro-organisms of all kinds, whether they be harm-
less or capable of producing disease. It is easy to
foresee, therefore, how they can pass into the atmo-
sphere or on to the surface of bodies, and thus be spread
everywhere. It becomes apparent, also, how animals
and plants may be alike affected by them, and how
rapidly they multiply under favorable conditions, which
may be briefly summarized as warmth, moisture, and
usually a deficiency of light.

If we cover up a pit of potatoes without the precau-
tion of keeping down the temperature and moisture,
fermentation sets in, and soon fungoid growths are
everywhere perceptible, while the substance of the po-
tato becomes diseased and rots. If the atmosphere of
the greenhouse be kept too warm and moist, fungoid
growths begin to show themselves directly, and in due
time the plants become sick ; or, again, the same cir-
cumstances arise if two or three weeks pass without the
assistance of the sun's rays to purify the atmosphere.
Although this is well understood by persons who have
charge of flowers, I can imagine an objection which
those to whom the suggestions may be new would be
likely to raise. For most people have read of, if they
have not seen, the rank vegetation of the tropics, where,
amid an abundance of heat and moisture, often with an
absence of sunlight, the most luxuriant and healthful
vegetation that the world knows, may be discovered.
Or, again, we may go into the deep woods in our own
country, and there, in shaded nooks and corners, find
specimens that are not to be found elsewhere, and
which, notwithstanding their healthy appearance, will
wither and die as soon as they are transferred to the
garden bed.

14 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

How is this ? In the first place, certain germs must,
as I have already shown, have certain suitable condi-
tions in which to increase and flourish ; and although
they may be produced in abundance in such locations as
those described, yet the plants that grow in the same
spots are proof against them, they are not suited to
their development, and, in fact, they grow in spite of
them. That germs are produced in such places every
victim of malaria can testify.

But this calls for another observation. Plants are
adapted to the conditions that surround them, and, con-
versely, the climate of any locality has vegetable growth
adapted to it. High latitudes and high elevations are
the homes of the pines and firs, while more temperate
regions give us the olive and the oak, and in the tropics
the palms and all the grandest development of endo-
genous vegetation most abound. This is nothing more
nor less than a law arising out of the temperature and the
formation of the earth itself ; nevertheless it is every-
where evident that Nature leaves nothing unoccupied,
so that when the conditions are such that one form of life
cannot continue, we find another especially adapted to it.

These, however, are exceptions in the vegetable world ;
but similar exceptions are to be found in the animal
creation. Life that flourishes in the tropics would perish
in Labrador, and the seal of Alaska would soon disap-
pear if removed to the waters of the Amazon. Animal
life is also to be met with under exactly the same condi-
tions as those in which we find the flowers that grow
apart from light and air in the dim recesses of the
woods. But this only proves the rule. The highest
and most complete forms of vegetation exist only under
the requirements given, and man, as the highest form
of animal life, requires the same. Like the oak and the
elm, he needs light, air, and a more or less equable tem-
perature. He does not flourish where the mushroom
and the snail are most at home. The gas that kills a
rose will destroy an animal. You may drown the one
Almost as readily as the other. Both succumb alike to

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE. 15

poisonous compounds. Both are subject to disease, and
very often are alike affected by the same causes. Hence
the relevancy of studying Nature in all her varied forms,
if we would come to a correct understanding of the con-
ditions of life and disease.

It is advisable, even, not to be content with a compre-
hension of the organic world alone, if we would fully
appreciate how much there is to learn outside of it, and
how thoroughly all bears down upon the same conclu-
sion— change is universal. The rocks, even the moun-
tains, are wasting away — slowly, it is true, but none the
less surely — under influences that are unceasing. Among
them light, air, and moisture fill a prominent part, but
minute, invisible growth is a powerful aid likewise.
The disintegration of the solid rock is influenced largely
by the growth, in the first instance, of minute fungi, and
afterward upon their remains by structures of a higher
organization, as lichens and allied plants ; and where
there is a crevice or a crack in a rock, even a disruption
may in time be produced by vegetable formation.

The indications in such instances are to discover a
means by which the growth may be prevented, or, if that
fail, then a means by which it can be killed. In business
this is constantly being attended to. Shippers of fruit,
for example, pack their produce as dry as possible and
keep down the temperature, so preventing the formation
of fungi and the process of fermentation. Ice is often-
times used for this purpose. Florists, too, when ship-
ping plants in the warm season, are careful to secure
ventilation by means of holes in their packages, or in
cold weather to line them with some material capable of
absorbing moisture. Without such precautions it would
be a hazardous business to send fruits from California or
the extreme South to New York, but with them even
the most delicate produce of warm climates can be
transported with safety and advantage, as the condition
of grapes of San Angeles, as seen in New York, suffi-
ciently testifies. In the same manner the produce of the
West Indies is safely carried to the markets of London
and Paris.

16 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE- KILLER.

If we examine a piece of lumber that has been lying
for some time under the influence of air and moisture,
and especially if the sunlight has been limited, fungoid
growths may be seen upon the surface — and the practical
problem put before us is how to get rid of them, and so
to preserve the timber from destruction. Let any textile
fabric — a man's coat or a woman's gown — get wet and
be put away in that condition in a close closet. In a
very short time fungoid matter can be detected by the
musty smell that is given off, even though it may not
be perceptible to the unaided eye. Leave the clothes
in this condition for a short time, and they rot and
fall to pieces. In each of these illustrations the fungi
are different (see Plate I.) ; and our purpose is not so
much to know how they would be classified by the bio-
logist as it is to learn the means by which to get rid of
them. It is the same throughout. It would be easy to
enumerate hundreds, ay, thousands, of similar exam-
ples, and in every one the cause is the same, the proofs
being so marked and so unanswerable that none but a
person who is wilfully ignorant or who is blinded by
prejudice could possibly question them.

The special study of microbes as a branch of biological
science is full of interest and value, but it is not material
to a practical application of remedial agents in the
treatment of disease. It is well to identify the special
microbes of typhoid and tetanus in the ground, butvv^hen
it comes to treating either of those diseases it is of no
moment that two specific germs are there. It suffices to
destroy them, and one treatment will do that. Thus,
then, it is not necessary to my present purpose to clas-
sify the microbes that are met with, and it is only as
indicating the progress of the study that I refer to that.
My object is rather to point out the all-important part
they take in the causation of disease, and to make known
the means by which they may be destroyed and pre-
vented from increasing, that thus the substance in
which they are found may be preserved. In subsequent,
chapters I shall show more fully how this is done.

PLATE III.

9. HUMAN BLOOB IN HEALTH.

X 1500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

BLii

IS

S^PVp^^^.

10. HUMAN BLOOB (Biseased).

(FULL OF GERMS AND MICROBES.)

X 1500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

11. HUMAN BLOOB (Biseased). 12. HUMAN BLOOB (Biseased).

(FULL OF GERMS AND MICROBES.) (FULL OF GERMS AND MICROBES.)

X 1500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam. x 1500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

CHAPTER III.

INHERITANCE OF DISEASE.

My personal experience first led me to believe, and my
personal investigations afterward proved conclusively,
that in all cases of disease, whether in plant or in ani-
mal, there is some form of micro-organism connected
with it, and that this will increase and propagate itself,
and that, too, when it is transferred to a healthy organi-
zation of the same kind. If I take seed from an un-
healthy, sickly, yellowish-looking plant and sow it, and
if it germinates, unhealthy, sickly, and yellowish-look-
ing plants will be the result. The germs of disease were
there. ^^Rust," which is common on oats and some
other cereals, is nothing more than a fungus and disease
germ. Farmers recognize this, and they call for rust-
proof seed. That does not imply that the plants grown
from such seed are not subject to disease, but it does
mean that the germs are not already in the seed. It
means that the seed is healthy, that it came from
healthy plants, and that it contains no microbes, fungi,
or micro organisms. Acting upon similar knowledge,
he plants only healthy potatoes ; he breeds his sheep,
cattle, and horses only from healthy stock ; and, in
short, in all his farming operations he avoids, as far as
possible, contact with disease in any and every form.
In doing this he is simply avoiding the transfer of dis-
ease germs or microbes.

The same thing occurs in the human race. It may not
be going too far to call it a law of Nature that diseased
parents have diseased offspring, in which case the chil-
dren have inherited a constitution which favors the
growth of the same microbes, or they have received from
their mother's organization the actual germs which de-

18 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

velop into the more active micro-organisms. A florist
takes his cuttings only from healthy plants, because he
well knows that, if he did not, either the cuttings would
perish through lack of vitality, or they would produce
diseased plants like those from which they were derived,
and his trouble and care in raising them must be in-
creased. Moreover, he perpetuates a disease by neglect-
ing this precaution, and it may be conveyed to others,
whereas his first consideration necessarily is to have all
his floral family as free as possible from every deteriorat-
ing influence. I have frequently noticed that when rose
cuttings are touched with even the smallest particle of
black rust or other fungus they are certain to cause
trouble, the rapidity with which the disease is spread
being very remarkable, and it is difficult to stop it, still
less to eradicate it. The same applies to the animal
world, with only this distinction, as a rule, that plants
suffer from fungi peculiar to plants, while animals
perish from microbes peculiar to animals. In the many
instances already adverted to — as, for example, in affec-
tions of the alimentary canal, where disease is caused by
the imbibition of unwholesome frnit or vegetables— a
process of fermentation is first set up, which in turn
produces a special abnormal condition.

Disease is constantly being perpetuated by too close
intermarriages, which result in the production of dis-
eased children, who thus convey the weakness onward
through generations, in all of which the bacillus, mi-
crobe, disease germ, or micro-organism is performing its
special function, debilitating the mind, deforming the
body, disorganizing the tissues, destroying the ener-
gies, lowering the standard of the race, and bringing
death.

I may here remind the reader of the passage in
Scripture where punishment to the third and fourth
generation is promised to those who by forbidden in-
termarriages promote disease, which they would do by
transference of disease germs.

We often hear a great deal about affinity in its effect

INHERITAl^CE' OF DISEASE. l9

through marriage of deterior^tirrg offspring or perpeMst^'
ing disease. Thiis it is said that intermarriage of fain-
ilies through the second generation should be avoidedj
and we are told that a degenerate offspring necessarily
ensues. Experience says that this is not absolutely true,
although it is often justified by facts. No one doubts]
however, that unions of affinity are undesirable, and
why? The micro-organisms which produce disease^ as
I have already shown, need congenial surroundings in
which to propagate and to flourish. The organism of
individuals presents some differences, and one person
may be a better medium for the growth of a particular
parasite than is another; This peculiarity is hereditary;
just as facial expressions are hereditary. Thus it i§
tolerably certain that two persons closely related, as
cousins for instance, possess to some extent the same
favorable conditions for the development of a particular
disease germ. If they marry, these conditions are inten-
sified in their offspring. Two persons may have a ten-
dency to tuberculosis or consumption which is not in
itself sufficiently strong for development, but when the
combined tendency is found in a child it overcomes all
other opposing influences, and disease and death follow.^
Two persons not related may also have predisposition to
disease, but in different forms. In that case the one
might counteract the other, and so a negative result
would be brought about. But if they did not counteract
each other, both would descend to the child, each in a
mitigated form — that is, neither being stronger than it
existed in the parent — but at the same time the off-
spring would inherit the weakness of both father and
mother, and thus its susceptibility to disease would be
increased; ■"■'-■ - - - : /

Nurserymen long ago learned through "experiments
that pear trees budded on quince stalks dwarf ed them by
causing an unhealthy growth, and they also learned that
scions cut from dwarfed pear trees and grafted on pear
seedlings seldom produced healthy trees. But the graft,
ing of scions from healthy pear trees upon quick-growing

20 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER,

pear stock, such as the Le Conte, Chinese Sand-Pear,
Kiefer-Hybrid, and other fast-growing varieties, proved
successful by greatly improving the health and growth.
The health of very delicate tea roses is greatly improved
by budding them on strong growing, hardy varieties,
and many varieties of foreign grapes which failed to
grow in this climate are now successfully grafted and
raised on strong growing, hardy natural stock. Hybridi-
zation, cultivation, and selecting the best varieties of
plants and animals for propagation, tend to improve
them. Why should not the same course improve man ?

If the same precautions were taken in perpetuating
the human family as are taken in breeding the lower
animals, we should not only attain to physical and men-
tal superiority, but we should in all likelihood obliterate
the causes of very much disease.

Now, the system which we find to produce such dete-
riorating consequences in horses is exactly that which
we are carrying out every day and from year's end to
year's end in the propagation of mankind. In the hu-
man family we cannot follow the methods under which
the English racehorse of the present day has been de-
veloped, but we might find it not so difiicult to guard
against the propagation of disease. Let every man
marry none but a healthy woman, and let every woman
be careful to select none but a healthy husband, and
much disease, deformity of mind as well as body, and
general debility would be avoided and in course of time
killed out. No hereditary disease owing its existence
to micro-organisms could possibly be continued. But
where one or both parents have the germs of disease,
the offspring is not only liable but is almost certain
to be sickly and unhealthy, and the doctor will be
called simply to watch their downward progress toward
dissolution — victims of disease germs and of a process of
fermentation.

CHAPTEE IV.

HABITAT OF DISEASE GERMS.

Forms of vegetation, and also of animal life, vary in
different latitudes. The fauna and flora of the tropics
bear no resemblance to the animals and plants that have
their home in temperate zones, and in like manner the
micro-organisms, fungi, and microbes of various parts
of the earth have distinct characteristics.

Some plants can be transferred from the places where
they are indigenous, and they can be grown and made to
flourish in places which are quite foreign to them ; others
will only vegetate in their native home and they perish
when transferred to another region. The same applies
to animals, not only to the larger but to the microscopic
members of the animal kingdom. The yellow-fever
germ likewise requires certain climatic conditions, as is
well known, in order to propagate rapidly and produce
disease. When those climatic or atmospheric conditions
do not exist, the germs perish and the disease dies out.
The regions where it is most prevalent in this hemi-
sphere, and it is worse here than elsewhere, are the
Isthmus of Panama and some parts of Mexico and Cuba,
though Louisiana and other portions of the United
States, as is well known, are subject to it ; but in the
latitude of New York, even on the sea border, it is com-
paratively harmless, the microbes ceasing their activity
almost on entering the harbor of New York.

Yellow fever is acutely infectious. The microbes are
in the atmosphere. That is their primary characteristic.
But under favorable conditions, which are not yet accu-
rately defined, though they probably are due to local
impurities in the soil, the disease becomes contagious
and endemic, as it ordinarily is at Colon and Panama.

22 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

The differences thus noted are due no doubt merely ta
varying degrees of activity or vitahty of the microbes.
The worst form of the disease is found at Panama, and
there no condition of health is sufficient to ward off the
attack. The old and the young are alike affected. Per-
sons in robust health may be struck down sooner than
those whose appearance would indicate a less power of
resistance ; and so powerful is the micro-organism that
causes it, so rapidly does it multiply, and so actively does
it operate to bring about a fermentation and destruc-
tion of the blood, that a few hours sometimes suffice to
bring death. It is a remarkable fact that, notwithstand-
ing the energy of the bacillus, the riiortality among chil-
dren is less than among adults. What does this show ?
How can it be accounted for? Easily enough on the
theory that there is something in the adult system to
favor the growth of the microbe which does not exist to
the same degree in the constitution of children before
the age of puberty.

The microbe of cholera (see Plate XV.) is different
from that of yellow fever (see Plate XX., No. 79), but it
is equally energetic in growth and action, and causes
death quite as rapidly. Both probably arise from the
same source, though in different parts of the world, and
in that respect they are not unlikely to resemble the
common microbe of summer diarrhoea (see Plate XVI.,
No. '61). This has been ascertained to exist in the super-
ficial layers of the earth, whence it may extend to water
or to the various articles used as food, the vital manifes-
tations of such micro-organisms depending on conditions
of season, heat, and moisture, and on the presence of
dead organic matter, animal or vegetable, or both. The
microbe so produced may pass likewise into the atmo-
sphere, whence undoubtedly it causes its evil effects in
the three diseases under consideration. Thus, it passes
into the system, where it brings about a process of fer-
mentation or decomposition, producing changes that re-
sult in giving the symptoms noticed in yellow fever,,
cholera, and diarrhoea: The microbe is not the same in

HABITAT OF DISEASE GERMS. 23

the three cases, but it may be similar, and certainly it
may be produced in a like manner in a similar nidus and
on a corresponding pabulum. But in the one it flour-
ishes in Panama and Havana, in the other in Asia, and
in the third in New York, or anywhere if due regard be
not paid to drainage and to general sanitary require-
ments.

It is not to be supposed that the germs- of the atmo-
sphere are essentially different from those in the soil or
in vegetable or animal matter. The latter constitute
the nidus or place in which they are originated, and
there, too, they find the pabulum or food on which they
thrive, but the same may quite readily be passed into the
atmosphere, to float away to another place, then to in-
crease and multiply according to the universal law of
nature. The motes that are visible in the line of a sun-
beam are often mere particles of lifeless matter, but
often, too, they are minute organisms, with more or less
power for mischief as soon as they fall upon a place that
is suitable to their growth and development.

Many plants have seeds that are furnished with a
feathery structure which facilitates the action of the
wind to raise them in the air and waft them sometimes
many miles away from the spot where they grew. The
thistle and dandelion are familiar illustrations of these.
On my grounds at Austin I made some fish-ponds, and
in one of them fish made their appearance, apparently
spontaneously, certainly without my introducing any.
All were quite small, as though recently hatched. How
did they come there ? Is it not possible that the spawn
might have been carried by high winds or water fowl ?
I certainly think so, and I believe also that the careful
observer of Nature will agree with me.

The microbe that gives rise to Chagres fever is similar
to, though not identical with, that of yellow fever, and
it has the same habitat, but it is even more delicate, and
it perishes as soon as it is taken away from the neigh-
borhood of its early development. The microbe of lep-
rosy (see Plate IX., Nos. 33 and 34) is another example in

S4: MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

the other direction ; for although it is chiefly at home in
parts of eastern Europe, western Asia, and some of the
islands of the South Pacific, it manages to live in other
climates, though not with a like degree of activity and
vigor.

The greatest variety in vegetation is found in the tro-
pics ; there, too, we find the greatest variety of animals,
and logically we should expect to find there — and we
actually do find— the greatest variety of fungoid growths,
microbes, and micro-organisms. Warmth and heat are
favorable to organic life, but with the increased develop-
ment of that we see also an increased development of
disease. The temperate zone produces fewer microbes,
and it also generates a higher physical excellence and
more perfect health to resist their action ; hence follows
a minimum of disease, so far at least as the habits of
people and the requirements of society permit.

In the tropics there is not only a higher development
of micro-organisms, both animal and vegetable, but also
a lower power of resistance in the human frame, and,
in consequence, a larger amount of disease, especially of
those forms of disease where changes in the blood are
brought about by fermentative processes, through the
presence of microbes, in the shortest and most thorough
manner. It is a matter of common experience that, if
we go south in this country, malaria and diseases allied
to it are more frequent there, especially in swampy dis-
tricts, than they would be in similar localities in Canada.
There ague is scarcely known ; and if we pass to Aus-
tralia, where the vegetation is immediately antagonistic
to the growth of microbes, ague is unknown. A physi-
cian who has been a resident of that country for nearly
fifteen years, and who has travelled over many thousand
miles of it, tells me that he never met with a case of
intermittent fever there, and never heard of one.

Two centuries ago ague was one of the most common
diseases in England, and also one of the most fatal.
Some of her kings and many members of the royal
family died of it. But as the population increased and

PLATE IV.

18. STAPHYLOCOCCUS PYOGENES
AUREUS.

(OF PUS— IN ACUTE ABSCESSES.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

14. STAPHYLOCOCCUS COCCINEA
FLAVA.

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

^^15. BACILLUS PYOGENES FCETIDUS
P LIQUEFACIENS.

^ (FOUND IN ABSCESSES.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

16. BACILLUS PYOGENES FCETIDUS.

(FROM AN ABSCESS.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

HABITAT OF DISEASE GERMS. 26

opened up the land, as agriculture improved and drain-
Sige of the soil became general, it gradually disappeared,
until in this century it had become limited to the low
lands of Norfolk and Huntingdonshire, and in these, as
a consequence of still more perfect drainage, it is becom-
ing yet more rare, and always less fatal.

Notwithstanding all this, the limit where microbes
cannot exist has not been discovered. Possibly there
may be some line in the northern and southern hemi-
spheres beyond which micro-organisms are not found in
the atmosphere, although it is difficult to suppose, in-
deed it cannot be supposed, that they do not exist on
the earth wherever higher forms of animal life are in
existence. They may not be as numerous nor as full of
vitality, and hence not as dangerous, but they are there.
At the same time, if we wish to propagate them we find
that the most favorable conditions are warmth, mois-
ture, and frequently a deficiency of sunlight. It is too
much a custom among Americans to close up their
houses, excluding light and air alike. But what I have
said shows the folly of such habits. Sunlight purifies
the air, and while it aids the higher forms of vegetation,
it is apt to destroy fungoid growths : not, however, by
its direct influence, which is always salutary, but by
withholding the moisture that is necessary to micro-
organic production.

Microbes die out when dried up, but the germs do not.
They will sprout and grow, because all microbes shed
germs or seeds which remain dormant in a dry state,
like seeds or yeast cakes. This explains why cholera,
yellow fever, small-pox, and many contagious diseases
can be carried around in the air and in old clothing.
Those germs will grow again just as soon as they find
the proper temperature, moisture, and seed-bed which
are necessary for their development and growth. Where
there are weeds there are seeds, and where there are
microbes there are germs.

Throw a wet dress into a trunk, and mildew or some
form of fungus will form upon it. Hang it above the

26 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

ground, where it can receive air and sunshine, and no
such result ensues.

In hot and dry countries, such as New Mexico or
Arizona, meat may be hung in the hot sun, and it
merely dries and remains fit for food. But let the atmo-
sphere be moist, under similar conditions, and fermenta-
tion soon begins, leading up to putrefaction.

Florists suffer considerably in damp, sultry weather,
when there is no sunlight, from injury done to their
plants by fungi. Seedlings *^damp off," which means
that fungi appear upon their leaves, check their growth,
and ultimately kill them.

Vinegar is the result of a fermentative process brought
about by the action of a microbe, but a warm tempera-
ture is necessary. The preparation of bread with yeast
is again a fermentation, the active agent being a vege-
table formation known popularly as the yeast plant.
By its growth and increase in the bulk of the material
carbonic-acid gas is formed, which mechanically ' ' raises "
the dough. Many years ago it was suggested that the
gas might be produced by chemical means, and so the
use of yeast would be rendered unnecessary. This was-
done at first by dividing the dough into two portions,
adding dilute nitric acid to one and carbonate of soda to
.the other, then mixing them thoroughly. A chemical
decomposition took place, the gas caused the dough to
rise, and a very excellent bread resulted. This, which
at the time was merely a laboratory experiment, led, at
no distant day, to the introduction of baking powders ;
but it is noteworthy that bread produced by the use of
yeast is still the most satisfactory and the most whole-
some, the action of the yeast plant being more gradual
and leaving no chemical salt behind.

Meat spoils more readily in a warm and close room
than when exposed to the air or to cold. In those parts
of Europe where the winters are cold without severe
frost, as, for example, in England, it is not unusual to
hang meat in places where a free current of air can be
pbtained at all times, and it remains in that position for

HABITAT OF DISEASE GERMS. 2T

perhaps five or six weeks, according to the weattier. It
is not ^^ spoiled." On the contrary, it becomes tender
and acquires a flavor which epicures admire. This can-
not be done where the meat freezes, and in a warm, un-
ventilated place it would become unfit for food in a very
few hours. The cause of this is the formation of a
micro-organism, the result of fermentation or decomposi-
tion (see Plate XX., Nos. Y7 and 78). Of course I ex-
clude reference to the injury that may be done by in-
sects, the effect referred to implying no other influence
than such as is derived from contact with the atmo-
sphere and the germs contained in it.

Watch Nature, observe her operations, pause and
think over them, and many useful lessons will be
learned, many old prejudices swept away, and number-
less errors will be corrected. Mere book-readers are
theorists ; Nature's readers are practical. The former
are apt to take for granted what others tell them ; the
latter judge for themselves. Thecrrists work blindly ;
they cannot see what they may, and will not see what
they should. They may stumble over things, but they
refuse to accept truths which Nature constantly holds
up before them, and it is in this way that processes that
are recognized in some things are ignored in others, be-
cause they seem to be at variance with theory. The full
importance of fermetitation, its general recurrence in
various processes of Nature, and the import of micro-
organisms and microbes in the causation of natural
phenomena, kamong which the production of diseased
conditions is not the least important, have never been
hitherto adequately acknowledged ; and it is because
observation has been too little made and theory has
occupied men's minds. I have sufficiently outlined the
true cause of disease. The instances I have given should
suffice to satisfy any onft-who is free from prejudice and
' from the cobwebs of the old school of teachers. They
are not beyond the reach of ordinary intelligences.
Nature, in her operations, abhors complicated processes.
She works by simple methods, and her laws are as wide-

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MICROBES AND THE MICROBE- KILLER.

reaching as they are simple. She does not devise some
comphcated plan for producing one particular disease,
and then set to work to arrange another cause for a
second form of sickness. On the contrary, she lays
down certain broad rules upon which all operations are
conducted. These rules apply to both kingdoms of or-
ganic life, with results that are only modified by circum-
stances of each. If they are not respected, trouble
ensues. Eesistance brings about catastrophe, and even
neglect of their operation has its perils. But when we
know what we have to accomplish a great part of our
difficulty is cleared away. Directly we are informed as
to the cause of a disease, the chief obstacle to finding a
remedy is removed. But if we enter upon the investi-
gation blinded with tradition and with book-reading
only, it stands to reason that the greatest difficulties in
the way of discovering a remedy are presented.

DIATOM ABACUNOIDUS

CHAPTER V.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES.

I WILL now proceed to sketch my own experiences,
from early life till the present, and the reader who will
patiently follow me throughout will have no difficulty in
realizing that the discovery I have' made cannot fail to
effect a revolution in the treatment and cure of disease.
The causes of disease in plants and animals have been
already described ; I propose now to detail my methods
for curing plants, and then give evidence concerning the
means I have used for effecting cures in myself and
others.

While engaged in business with my nursery in Austin,
Texas, I suffered from an attack of malaria, or intermit-
tent fever, and I had recourse to several doctors, who,
in the usual way, prescribed for me various drugs. I
swallowed the contents of bottle after bottle, until their
number became too great for calculation. I took quinine
until it failed to have any effect. I lost color and weight,
and was afflicted with an incessant cough that destroyed
my rest, wore away my strength, and led me and my
friends to the conviction that I was soon to become a
victim of consumption. My days seemed numbered.
All hope of a cure was abandoned. Everything that had
been done by the doctors had failed. Their efforts
seemed to be utterly useless. Instead of getting better
I gradually became worse. I lost energy and the capa-
city to attend to my affairs. Every resource known to
the doctors thus far had been used, and my life seemed
to be passing away, so that but a shrot time only was
needed to determine the result. In this emergency I re-
sorted to another doctor, who advised me to try the rare-
fied air of Colorado, high up in the mountains, where

30 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

the atmosphere is supposed to be purer and free from
the debihtating influences of the plains. This I could
not do, nor do I feel sure that I would have done it if I
had been able. The demands of my business forbade
my leaving home, and then I had never seen any one re-
turn from Colorado who had been cured of consumption,
which my friends feared for me.

My condition was, nevertheless, desperate. The mal-
arial fever had affected me for seventeen years, during
the last two of which it had been complicated with
sciatica and articular rheumatism, and I had become
literally a physical wreck. It can well be understood
that, amid such long-suffering, and the total failure of
doctors to afford me the necessary relief, I had made
myself acquainted with all advertised remedies and pro-
prietary medicines. Still the physicians did not leave
me. They were my constant visitors, prescribing one
thing to day and another to-morrow, only to discover
that every new prescription was, like its predecessor, a
failure. Two years before I discovered the microbe-
killer I lost two children — a boy and a girl. They had
not been strong. They were brought up by hand, my
wife being too weak to nurse them. Microbes affected
the milk (see Plate VI.), which in turn carried disease
to the stomachs of the infants. They became ill. Their
stomachs presently refused food. Paregoric, soothing
-syrup, and all the remedies that the doctors could devise
from their drug lists were tried without effect, and the
children died. The medicines killed them, and the rea-
sons I shall be prepared to explain.

This loss distracted my attention from my business.
.Up to that time I had devoted myself closely to my busi-
jaess as a florist. All books and literature of my occupa-
tion I read. I was an earnest subscriber to every floral
magazine that came within my knowledge, for I always
found in them something that was useful and instruc-
tive. I am anxious to give full credit to such publica-
tions, for I am much indebted to them, since it was in
them that I found the first hints which led me on to ex-

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 31

periments, and hence to the discovery of a certain and
safe means of kiUing fungi and microbes. They kept
me to the study of Nature. No medical work or maga-
zine would do that. None of them ever directed me to
natural sources, but, on the contrary, whenever I took
one up it diverted me from the line of my researches,
disturbed the tenor of my investigations, and confused
my ideas.

Medical papers would tell me the symptoms of fever
or rheumatism or diphtheria. They would describe the
microbe of typhoid, compare it with the microbe of
other diseases, explain its mode and rapidity of propa-
gation, sketch its appearance under the microscope,
classify it, and name it, but they would not tell how to
kill it. The symptoms which I saw in print were better
understood by me in my body. One who has had rheu-
matism can certainly comprehend the evidences and
feelings better than one who merely writes or reads
about it. When I arose in the morning I felt more tired
than when I went to bed. When I walked I felt as
though there were twenty pounds of lead tied to my
feet. When I drove to my seed store I could sit only on
the edge of my buggy seat, because the microbes would
not let me sit any other way; and when I stepped to the
ground it took me several minutes before I could move,
the microbes that produced sciatica and rheumatism
objecting to being disturbed, and so preventing me.
Every attempt to move had to be slow and deliberate
until they should get accustomed to the change. I was
a living barometer. Whenever the weather altered, and
especially if it became cooler, my collection of microbes
could anticipate it two or three days, and, when the
storm came, they would freeze, and force me to take
refuge by a red-hot stove to get them quieted.

The inevitable result of all this was clear. I had no
particular wish to leave the world. It is a pleasant
enough place to be in, provided a man has health and
some little necessaries. It is possible to imagine that
there may be worse. What I had seen of it had been

32 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

satisfactory enough in some respects, and I determined
to stay a little longer, if I could. At the same time I
knew that there must be a change, that things could
not go on as they were for long, or that, if they did, I
must make up my mind to follow my children, whither
we must all go sooner or later. I had taken all the
remedies that were presented to me ; I had seen my
children pass away ; I had observed death around me
striking down the young and the old, and I myself was
far on my way to the same fate ; what wonder should
there be, then, if I realized the momentous fact that
physicians cannot cure disease — in other words, that
medicine does not destroy microbes?

Good friends were generous with their advice. I was
told to try first one thing, then another, but I had be-
come wearied with what I had come to believe was so
much humbug, and I determined to swallow no more
medicine. I again studied advertisements. There I
saw commended electric belts, porous plasters, liniments,
lotions, and salves, and all sorts of external applications
that would cure everything, purify the blood, strength-
en the nerves, stimulate the functions of all the organs,
kill the microbes, and rejuvenate the individual in mind
and body. Well, this was something. Whatever such
things would or would not do, there was no medicine in
them — nothing to swallow, no poison— so, if they did no
good, I could not see that they would do harm. The
end of my thinking was that I sent off ten dollars to
Chicago for an electric belt. Some of the advertising
firms fail to respond, as they promise, to money remit-
tances, but my belt came, and I lost no time in fixing it
on. It reminded me of former days when I jumped
ditches eight feet wide, and sang and laughed when
others fell into the water. But now things were changed.
Then I had health and youth, now I was far older in
health than in years ; but I concluded that, being but
forty -three, if the belt did all that was promised for it,
there should be no reason why I might not live forty
years or more yet. So I gave the belt a good chance.

PLATE V.

18.

PYLORIC OPENING OF STOMACH.

Photomicrograph bj Wm. Radam.

19. SARCINA VENTRICULI.

(FROM THE STOMACH.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

20. MICROCOCCUS TETRAGENUS.

(IN STOMACH.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 33

I wore it faithfully for three months, and tried to help
it by covering myself in every hkely spot with porous
plasters. In that condition I went about my business,
clad in a kind of coat armor to fight microbes. I tried
to persuade myself that I was doing exactly the right
thing, and set to work to find enjoyment among my
roses and to forget my troubles.

But it was of no use. My hmbs did not consider that
much enjoyment. The microbes were unhappy and
would not be appeased. They gave me no rest. They
tortured me unceasingly, and finally they drove me
back in despair and desperation to my bed. I tried
strong vinegar ; friends recommended mustard plasters,
so mustard plasters were tried. I covered every painful
spot with them, and suffered tortures, with no relief.
I am ashamed of myself when I think that I ever list-
ened to such advice and descended to such folly. So
now all had failed. Medicines had reduced me to the
lowest condition of weakness and disease. I had swal-
lowed poisons till they had no longer any effect upon
me. Electric belts, lotions, plasters, blisters, every-
thing, internal and external, had proved useless. I was
worse than ever, with no resource untried, and no
longer a particle of faith in anything that doctors, pro-
prietary-medicine makers, or advertisers could offer me,
and I refused further advice.

But this refusal lasted only for a time. A drowning
man will catch at a straw. A friend came along who
suggested a massage operator. He told me that one of
these rubbing doctors had cured him of rheumatism,
so my determination failed me and my hopes were re-
newed. I thought the suggestion over philosophically.
I had tried medicines internally and externally to not
purpose, but here was something different. It was not
medicine of any kind, there were no poisons nor plasters,
and I convinced myself that I should try it. Well, I
went to the man's office, and he lost no time in getting
to work. He rubbed and pounded and drove his thumbs
into my flesh till I roared with pain and cried to heaven

34 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER.

that he would not kill me. He told me to bear it ; that
he would rid me of all my pains if only I would endure
the inconvenience for a time. So I cHnched my teeth
together and told him to go on. He went on, and he
continued his practice on me for about five minutes,
poking and pounding and straining my joints, until I
could bear it no longer. I jumped out of bed, gave him
five dollars, and hastened home, content to die, and
solemnly swearing to myself that I would never again
submit to such cruel and barbarous treatment.

The frame of mind to which I was then reduced is
not easy to describe, and, except by those who have
been similarly placed, it cannot be imagined. I was
depressed and ill. I again thought over the fate of my
children, and how they had been sacrificed to ignorance
and incompetency. I saw before me no better or differ-
ent prospect for myself. I had given up all hope. There
seemed nothing further to be done. All the usual re-
sources of sick persons had been tried, and they had
failed. I was steadily getting worse, growing weaker,
and suffering more. I had tried everything that medi-
cal science offered, and I became so thoroughly dis-
couraged that, in my despondency, I began to look upon
it as nothing better than a fraud and a humbug. I saw
healthy children fall sick and die, while medicine was
powerless to relieve them, and, with my own condition
ever fixed upon my mind, I began to think over past
experiences in my business.

I recalled much of the work that I had been called
upon to do throughout my career and in my manage-
ment of flowers. I recalled the various drugs that I
had been in the habit of using to destroy fungi in plants.
I thought over all that I had read of the experiences of
nurserymen in dealing with blight in pear trees, and of
the remedies that had been suggested. I recalled to
mind the sums of money I had thrown away in Texas
only for the purchase of pest poisons to kill insects. I
had experimented in and tried all the remedies that had
been recommended to kill fungi and destroy dry rot,

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 35

mildew, and other diseases in grapevines. I bethought
me again how I had offered a reward of one thousand
dollars for something that would destroy cabbage blight
without injuring the cabbage, when soon General Eug-
gels and Captain Warner appeared at my grounds,
ready, as they said, to earn the prize. Their plan was
not new, and if they had had as much knowledge about
what they were doing as the veriest tyro in chemistry
would have had, they would have known how absurd
their proposition was. However, I gave them a chance
to test their alleged discovery. A cabbage was selected
which was covered with blight, and an old kerosene can
was placed over it. One spoonful of sulphur was then
put underneath in a small saucer and ignited, the fumes
being allowed to fill the can. Five minutes later we ex-
amined the plant, and, sure enough, every insect, every
portion of the blight, was effectually killed, but the cab-
bage, too, was as dead as a door-nail.

When that little experiment came back to my mind,
it occurred to me that it was an excellent illustration of
the effect of medicine, which, while it destroys the mi-
crobes, kills the patient too, the patient being usually
the first to succumb. It led me to again think over my
own garden experiences, and the conviction became
deeply impressed, on my mind that, if I could discover
anything that would kill blight, fungi, and microbes on
plants without injuring them, I should also be in posses-
sion of something that would cure me. I felt that I had
had large experience, that I had been a careful and close
observer of Nature and her operations, and was positively
assured of the causes, to some extent, that led to the
production of plant diseases. I knew^ that all the various
kinds of fungus, or micro-organism, which produce rot,
mildew, etc., appear more frequently at changes of the
weather, and that whenever we had rain in spring after
a bright sunshine, disease would make its appearance
on the grapevines within twenty-four hours.

The effect thus so quickly apparent was as if some one
had sprinkled the leaves with some kind of poison. At

36 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

first little red spots became visible. These gradually yet
rapidly grew larger and spread until they covered the
leaves and extended to the fruit, and in about three
weeks it was possible to determine how the crop would
be affected. Having used so many medicines and drugs
on myself, there were almost the contents of a drug
store accumulated in my laboratory, and so, with the
help of my garden books and a small microscope, I set
to work to investigate the matter more closely. First
of all I examined about forty varieties of grapes that
were at my disposal. Some of them were more infested
than others. Several were not attacked at all, and
others very slightly, so that they soon recovered and
lost all evidence of disease. Among those least diseased
were the Delawares, Concords, and a few others, and
these I could always depend upon ; but the Black Span-
ish, Tokay, and all the California varieties were easy
victims to the fungus. There was abundant material
upon which to experiment, and I began with all the
remedies that had been suggested by the Agricultural
Department at Washington in the articles published
from that office on the diseases of the vine, but with
little or no effect. If I used the drugs sparingly they
failed to destroy the fungus, and if I used them more
liberally they killed the vine, or, at the best, they de-
stroyed the fruit and the leaves. I found prevention to
be better than cure, and that the disease was kept away
either by putting a roof over the vine or covering the
grapes with a paper bag, thus warding off rain and dew.
Noting the temperature and condition of the atmosphere,
and the effects of sudden changes of the weather on my
vines, I observed that when these were greatest there
was also more coughing and more sickness among the
people. Common-sense, and no great exercise of reason,
led me to see that the same causes had opei^ated in both
cases, and that the human race suffered from the same
influences as those which brought disease to the plants
and to the vegetable world. All organic life is, in fact,
affected in the same way; and although it has frequently

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 37

been observed that in what are called unhealthy seasons
the crops of fruit and cereals are likely to be inferior,
yet the observation has never before been given its full
practical import.

Frorn the grapevines I turned my attention to straw-
berries, and there I found similar enemies. Worms,
large and small, were on them, destroying alike fruit,
leaves, and roots, besides large quantities of bacteria and
fungi that were no less injurious. A group of geraniums
might be apparently in perfect health, and in twenty-
four hours the enemy would come in upon them like
yellow fever upon the people. I could go through a
garden of flowers and not only demonstrate all this read-
ily, but prove, without much difficulty, that each variety
has a host of enemies that destroy it.

In the open air there is great difficulty in contending
against these enemies. It is not so easy to bring plants
under the immediate influence of the remedies, and ex-
posure to the atmosphere makes them, of course, more
liable to any deleterious effects; but in the greenhouse very
much can be done if the plants are attended to in time.

Flowers go through the same processes and functions
as man. They take nourishment, and die as he does.
They need air, food, and water ; they suffer from dis-
ease, go through various phases of health, and are sub-
ject to similar disturbances as those which afflict men
and animals. Kespiration is as essential to them as to
us. Changes are constantly going on in their tissues,
and fluids circulate through them in constant directions,
und even with considerable force.

Thus the relations between animals and plants are
Very intimate, and if we would know how to treat dis-
ease in the former we must study it in the latter. If
we would cure members of the human family, let us see
how disease affects the vegetable world, and ascertain, if
we can, what remedial agents are necessary and safe
there. If in our experiments we kill a few plants, the
loss is not very great ; but if in the same way human life
be sacrificed, the process becomes a serious one.

38 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

In experimentiDg on plants there is no such risk, and
when we shall have found something which will destroy
microbes without injury to the plant we may safely test
it on the human body. I have mentioned the proposal
that was made to win the one thousand dollars that I
offered as a reward for something that would kill the
cabbage bugs ; and it ruined the cabbage. If that same
experiment had been tried with a child it would most-
certain ly have killed the child. The product obtained by
burning sulphur in air is sulphurous acid. This has
bleaching properties and disinfecting power, and no ani-
mal life can exist in it. Its use as a disinfectant depends
on that property. It is, in truth, a deadly poison when
taken in full strength into the lungs. To use it, there-
fore, on mankind in that way would be simply criminal,
whereas an experiment with a plant is justifiable and
useful. It may be inferred with tolerable certainty that
if any agent that is offered to us has no deleterious ef-
fects on vegetable life, it will not be very hazardous to
test it on the human body.

All my early life was passed amid flowers. I was en-
gaged in their cultivation ; 1 learned their habits and
their needs ; I watched their lives ; I studied them in
health and noted careful observations about their dis-
eases ; I experimented, and it will be well if I give some
of my experiences and how I went to work to try and
cure plants.

If plants are kept as nearly as possible in their native
condition, with good soil from which to obtain their
nourishment, and in a pure atmosphere and an equable
and proper temperature ; if, too, they are raised from
healthy stock, they are not subject to disease, fungi
cannot readily get a foothold on them. So a child, the
offspring of healthy parents and a sturdy ancestry,
properly fed, kept in wholesome surroundings, sheltered
from extremes of heat and cold, and protected from con-
tact with disease of others, is not very likely to grow up
unhealthy or to be subject to any serious illness. But
if plants are chilled or kept too warm ; if the soil be

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 39

allowed to parch or to become too wet ; if no sunlight be
permitted to have access to them, or if they be propa-
gated from sickly stock, they will soon become the rest-
ing place of microbes, which will accumulate upon them
in masses and very soon render the sickly flower a seat
of the most fatal disease.

I have applied drugs, both directly and indirectly, to
the fungus, and in my selection I was at first guided by
a knowledge of what physicians use for destroying mi-
crobes in their patients. Dusting them over the affected
parts of the plants, I found the following to be worth-
less : sulphur, borax, boracic acid, salicylic acid, cam-
phor, tannic acid, acetic acid, tartaric acid, alum, calo-
mel, saltpetre, Epsom salts, lime, and various salts of
potassium and sodium. Many of these, if not all, are
employed by doctors in the treatment of diseases which
the doctors themselves attribute to the presence of micro-
organisms, yet they will not kill those same bodies on a
plant ; how, then, can they destroy them in the body ?

When the air was warm and moist I found that fun-
goid growths appeared everywhere and multiplied with
astonishing rapidity. Under the same conditions milk
turns sour very rapidly, meat shows evidence of fermen-
tation, strawberries and other fruits become rapidly
covered with micro-organisms which spoil them quickly ;
and the microbes in my own body at the same time be-
came lively, so that I would have to lie down and protect
myself from the changes. Then at other times, espe-
cially after thunder-storms, no fungi were formed, and
I too felt better, breathing more easily and being more
free from pain. At the same time, too, meat and milk
would keep longer, and many forms of fungus disap-
peared, while my plants always looked better and were
more full of life.

This observation opened my eyes. My reason told me
that I must look for that something which purified the
air and removed the germs of fungi and disease, acting
so powerfully and yet so harmlessly on the higher organs
of life, for its action was far more powerful than that of

40 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

all the poisonous drugs I had before used. I felt certain
that herein lay the key to my remedy. But to identify
it absolutely, to make it artificially, and then to apply it
correctly, were problems that occupied my attention for
more than a year after. My former experiments had
shown me that powerful drugs had little or no effect if
applied externally to plants or trees, or if dusted on
fruits. I found also that sprinkling and washing pear
trees which had blight did very little good, and that
even pruning and cutting off diseased parts gave at best
but temporary relief, because no sooner was it done
than other parts became diseased, and by pruning away
all the dead matter there was soon nothing but the
stump left, and then that too died.

This very much resembles what happens in the exer-
cise of ^'scientific surgery," where limbs or diseased
portions are cut away and the disease breaks out again,
so that the patient dies from constant operations, unless
the microbes are left undisturbed to fulfil their mission.
Of course we all know that surgical operations are often
successful, but those are mostly cases of severe injury
where it is necessary to remove the injured portion. It
is very different when the operation is undertaken to
remove parts that are diseased from the presence of
micro-organisms, or fungi, or microbes, as, for example,
cancer. To cure a tree of tendency to blight it is neces-
sary to go to the roots. Most persons know that flowers
which grow luxuriantly are less subject to blight than
others whose growth is slower and whose appearance is
sickly. We must then furnish the tree with better food
and drink, that will enter into the sap, pass through the
tissues, and produce a condition where bacteria will not
live. As soon as I did this to my trees their green color
returned, they threw out fresh shoots, put on a more
vigorous growth, and presented no further necessity for
cutting off the limbs.

The organs of the body are similar in functions to por-
tions of the tree. In plants every cell is a stomach.
Nourishment is taken up by the roots. It passes up-

PLATE VI.

pi. BACILLUS ACIDI-LACTICI.

(OF SOUR MILK.)

2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

3. BACILLUS LACTIS ERYTHRO-
GENES.

(bacillus of red milk.)
:-5(X). Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

22. BACILLUS CYANOGENES.

(OF BLUE MILK.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

24. BACILLUS OXYTOCUS PERNICI-
OSUS.

(FOUND IN OLD MILK.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. 41

ward through certain portions of the stem to the leaves.
There it is assimilated, and thence it passes downward,
forming deposits of new cells over the old wood under-
neath the bark. While, therefore, the plant breathes
through its leaves, yet if we would reach them internally
we must go first to the roots. We cannot improve and
enrich the sap in any other way. So in man we supply
food and nourishment through the stomach, and fresh
air through the lungs, if we would send a color to the
cheeks and promote the health of the person. It is the
stomach that we purify and strengthen first of all, and
the nerves, blood vessels, muscles, and all other tissues
derive the benefit.

CHAPTER VI.

DEVELOPMENT OP THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Knowing that fermentation goes on in the stomach, I
felt the value of discovering something that would stop
that process. I placed some of the contents of my own
stomach into a bottle of medicine, and I found that the
process of fermentation continued, and that microbes
were multiplied and propagated and flourished exceed-
ingly. This showed to me, as plainly as is the sun at
noonday, that the same process goes on in the stomach.
I from time to time added different medicines to the
same, and still the fermentation was not checked. The
microbes grew in spite of the medicine, telling me that
this was useless as a curative agent. Under such cir-
cumstances it became no longer any source of wonder
to me that I did not get well, or that instead of improv-
ing I steadily became worse. When people are sick it
is not alone money that they care for ; the cost of
drugs and the doctor's fees are a secondary considera-
tion. But when disease is not stopped they become
discouraged ; their pain and suffering continue, and
money is of little consequence to one who feels that if
he cannot get help death is before him.

I have often felt pain in the stomach, either from
overeating or from drinking too much water, and then
I almost always get relief with whiskey. This shows
that good whiskey or alcohol will stand the test ; but if
whiskey or alcohol be mixed with water, fermentation is
not stopped. Drugs are now generally preserved in
alcohol or whiskey, these in a pure state being the
most harmless of antiseptics. But give a patient a pint
of alcohol in twelve hours, and you not only intoxicate
him, you kill him. It is not desirable to give it as an

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 43

antiseptic, and I regret to have to place it in the hst
with them, because it creates a taste for spirits, which
is not desirable, and people are too much addicted to
them already. But common sense will tell most people
that even alcohol is less harmful than morphia, chloro-
form, or the ordinary poisons and antiseptics known to
physicians.

Finding, then, that alcohol was a powerful antiseptic,
and knowing that it is derived from the vegetable king-
dom, from fruit, grain, rice, potatoes, and anything that
contains starch or sugar, I made raids upon my garden
and the prairies. I gathered up every kind of plant that
had any aromatic properties, and extracted the oil. I
took a similar extract by grinding up onions, sage,
thyme, tomatoes, and various other fruits and vege-
tables, as well as leaves. In fact, I refused nothing that
offered me any kind of juice, oil, or extract which would
not ferment when mixed with a sufficient quantity of
water to be rendered harmless in the stomach when
taken in large doses. But I was not successful. I did
not find anything that would answer my purpose. The
more I worked, the more I experimented, the more con-
vinced I became that there was no medicine to be found
in that way which would kill the microbe and stop fer-
mentation without killing the patient ; and that is what
the doctors told me when I first introduced the microbe-
killer to public notice.

However, I was now thoroughly disheartened. All
my efforts had failed ; all my experiments had proved
fruitless, except to give me negative results and to tell
me I had undertaken something that could not be ac-
complished. I lay down to die. I felt that there was
no cure for me, no hope that I could get better. I had
tried everything that friends or physicians or my own
reason could suggest, and all to no purpose. My weight
had fallen from one hundred and ninety pounds to one
hundred and forty-four. My energies were exhausted
and my spirits were depressed. But the subject still oc-
cupied my mind, and my rest seemed to stimulate my

44 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

brain. I thought over the matter incessantly, until at
last something happened which had not previously
occurred to me. Nature Had so often told me how she
purifies the air, what the effects of a thunder-storm are,
that ifc was nothing for me to go to her once more for
instruction and advice. I asked myself the question :
What is air ? Is it nothing more than oxygen, nitrogen,
carbonic acid, ammonia, and water, with electricity per-
vading all ? And if there be anything more, what is
it ? and how can we make it ? I turned these questions
over in my mind constantly. I knew that there was
pure air u'p in the mountains, and that there was impure
air in swamps, foul greenhouses and cellars — in fact
everywhere where fermentation flourishes. All this
fermentation emits gases — some poisonous — which min-
gle with the air, making it impure. To purify the air
we must remove the fermentation which produces these
poisonous gases. Nature does this in many ways — by
strong winds, by electricity and lightning.

Whenever we had a thunder-storm I saw my plants
improving and I felt myself feeling better. Thus Nature
gave me a pointer in the right direction. The question
for me to solve was, how could I stop fermentation in-
side my body as effectively as Nature stopped it out-
side ?

Former experiments I had made in curing plants from
bacteria and fungi, by dusting or dosing them with
drugs, generally hurt them in the same way as the drugs
given me by my doctors seemed to injure my body.
Burning the drugs in the greenhouse killed fungi and
plants alike, for carbon or smoke is a deadly poison to
all forms of life. Further experiments led me to dis-
cover how to purify the gas from carbon or smoke, so
that only the clean gas entered the greenhouse. This
gave very satisfactory results. Here at last I was on the
track which pointed the direction of all my further ex-
periments, and which finally led to the discovery of the
microbe-killer.

I had often read that people go to the seashore or the

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE- KILLER. 45

mountains or pineries for their health — not to drink salt
water, nor to eat turpentine or creosote which the pines
contain, but to inhale the air which contains the vapors
or gases evaporated from the salt water or turpentine.
If we study the process of preserving meat or hams by
smoke we gain the same result. It is the gas arising
from the burning of the wood which contains the tur-
pentine or creosote which preserves the meat. The
result is not injurious to life, whereas if meat or hams
were soaked in turpentine or creosote they would not
only be preserved, but they would be poisonous and kill
whoever ate of them. This demonstrates again that the
gas is harmless while the drug itself is not.

But further experiments soon told me that to make a
harmless antiseptic gas the drugs themselves must be
harmless. I read in a medical paper that a certain phy-
sician experimented to cure a patient with the gas gene-
rated from corrosive sublimate, and promptly killed the
patient. Anybody who ever inhaled the fumes of sul-
phuric, nitric, or muriatic acid knows the result which
follows. And right here I may mention that every imi-
tation microbe-killer sold to the people as medicine
alleged to kill microbes is made of nothing else than
diluted acids, which can be compounded by any one who
has not the slightest idea of the experiments that led me
to discover the microbe-killer. No chemist in the world
can show how Radam's Microbe-Killer is made. This
was practically shown in court, and extracts of those
proceedings are given in another chapter.

With the knowledge I had accumulated by experi-
menting to cure plants, I set to work to find out why the
medicines prescribed by my physicians failed to cure me.
I put some fermented matter that came from my sto.
mach and lungs into the medicines, sealed the bottles up,
and noticed the result. In about two days the medicines
themselves fermented, showing they had no antiseptic
powers and hence could never cure me. I tried the
same experiment with all the other medicines that had
accumulated on my shelves, and always with the same

46 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

result. Common sense told me now that it was useless to
swallow any more medicine. If the medicine itself could
not stop that little bit of fermentation I put into it, how
could it stop the fermentation inside my body ?

From that day I stopped doctoring with physicians'
remedies, and I have not expended a single dollar since
upon them, except to occasionally test the antiseptic pow-
ers of some new remedy, always with the result that the
new remedy increased rather than stopped fermentation.

This test opened my eyes. It was a long step in ad-
vance, and drove me faster than ever to make further
experiments and find out if there really was a drug or
combination of drugs that would stand the test as an
antiseptic and at the same time be harmless to the hu-
man body.

To the drug stores I went and bought samples of
drugs, poisons, especially those claimed by physicians
to be antiseptics ; not for the purpose of swallowing
them, or in order to find out how they would act inside
my body, as physicians do with their patients— that
would have been deliberate suicide, and whatever the re-
sult would have been it would have established nothing.
The object I had in view was to test each drug separately
outside of my body, to ascertain if it was an antiseptic
and would stop fermentation, and also if it was harmless
or not. I certainly had no desire to kill myself with
drugs the action of which I knew nothing, the same
as thousands of others know nothing about the action
of certain drugs and still persist in their use. Those
men who kill themselves or their patients by experi-
menting upon them with drugs of which they know
nothing, receive at least the questionable honor that
they died or killed their patients for *^ the cause of medi.
cal science." Any experimenting on the human body
made by the profession is always done for the ^' cause of
medical science." The patient has to submit. Does it
not serve those patients right, if they will not insist that
they must not be experimented upon ? Had I killed my-
self in a similar manner what would they say ? The

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 47

reader can easily guess. The malicious lies which some
of the wise men published about me after I was suc-
cessful prove that my discovery was not made for the
''cause of medical science," but for the cause of the
people, who now are beginning to open their eyes to a
true knowledge of things which concern them inti-
mately.

Common sense told me then that if an architect has a
test to find out the strength or the breaking strain of
any grade of cement, brick, stone, iron, steel, or what-
ever building material he may use, before he puts up the
building, why could I not tell by some kind of a test the
antiseptic power of any drug or medicine, and further
ascertain whether that drug or medicine was harmless to
the human body or not, before swallowing it ? The fol-
lowing will show that I have settled this question, which
makes all further experiment on the patient unneces-
sary. I will show in what way and manner I conducted
my experiments, which were continued about nine
months before I discovered the antiseptic that was effec-
tive and still harmless to human life.

Every drug I bought, every herb I found, and every
juice or oil I extracted was tested in the following man-
ner :

In each bottle of medicine to be tried I placed a small
piece of raw meat, sealed it up, wrote on the label the
date, the strength of the solution, and if it was com-
pounded according to a prescription I pasted the for-
mula on the bottle, and then noted the results. Every
day I took my note book in hand and examined every
bottle carefully to watch the action of the drug or medi-
cine on the meat. In most cases fermentation set in
after three or four days, in some later, and in a very
few bottles the meat did not ferment. The drug, oil,
or juice which showed no antiseptic properties was
thrown away, and the record in my book was made,
after the names of those drugs or combinations, ''no
good." Every bottle which proved to contain an anti-
septic was carefully examined for weeks and months.

48 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

and the changes that the meat underwent in the anti-
septic carefully noted down.

In pure alcohol the meat gradually turned to a yellow-
ish color ; in creosote and carbolic acid, black ; in mer-
cury diluted one to two hundred per cent it turned to
a silvery color, and gradually to black. Whenever I
thought I had found what I was searching for, a more
careful examination made the following day revealed
the fact that the* meat began to shrink or twist, which
closed up the pores. This was a warning which gave
me to understand that the same process would go on
inside of my body if I dared to drink the solution. No
disease can be cured unless the system is soaked with
the medicine for days, weeks, and perhaps months, ac-
cording to the age of the disease. This is shown in pick-
ling beef with salt ; we must use enough salt to soak the
meat clear through, and if we try to preserve it by
smoke we must smoke it clear through. Nothing can
be preserved by halves. The whole substance must be
preserved. This may be contrary to the teachings of
medical science, but it is what Nature teaches every
day.

After I had tried every drug and poison that I could
obtain in the manner above described, I learned that
there was not a single drug or combination of drugs that
would stand the test, namely, stop fermentation in the
human body without injury to the system. If any per-
son being treated for a chronic disease will take the
trouble to test his medicines in a similar way, he will
find out soon enough why he fails to recover.

Failing to find the harmless antiseptic in drugs, I then
gave all my attention to the production of gases, in the
manner before described in my experiments upon plants,
and which had proven so successful with them. For
this purpose I selected drugs which were harmless in
themselves, although not strictly antiseptic in a crude
state. I tried to make them antiseptic by combining the
gases in different proportions until an antiseptic gas was
formed. After the gas was washed and purified, I again

PLATE VIT.

lI;

^

l:-?

^iF/-

'J'

i

25. SPIRILLUM MILLERl.

(FROM CARIOUS TEETH.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

•*■ i.- V s.'k

27. ACHORION SCHOENLEINII.

(FAVUS FROM HEAD.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

26. LEPTOTHRIX BUCCALIS.

(MOUTH BACTERIA.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

"'•-.

28. MICROBES DANDRUFF

PRODUCING.

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE KILLER. 49

tested each combination of gas in a manner similar to
that employed with the drugs, to see their action upon
raw meat. The results were carefully noted. Suffice it
to say that I met with nothing but failure. My gas
would not do what I expected. Three times I stopped
the experiments entirely, believing that what I was
searching for belonged to the impossibilities. I became
discouraged and lay down to die. But I could not die
peacefully. I was restless from thinking over my fail-
ure and dreaming about success. An idea came to me,
and I tried again and again. Each time I seemed to be
a little nearer success. This gave me perseverance,
until I found my little bits of meat improving every day
in color, the pores keeping wide open, without the slight-
est taint of fermentation noticeable. A little more im-
proving, and I had the antiseptic that proved to be an
antiseptic, without having experimented on my body.
There was great joy in store for me, and I could not help
going to my doctor, who generally looked in his book
when he prescribed another liniment for my rheuma-
tism. I asked him if it was possible to kill the microbes,
in the human body. He said ^' no," most emphatically.
' ' We have to kill the patient before we can kill the
microbes." I told him, without going into details, that
I believed I had discovered something which would kill
them. He laughed and said : '^Dr. Koch, Prof. Pasteur,
and in fact the whole medical world is working on this
question, and no one has found the solution. And as;
for you, my dear Mr. Radam, I guess you have the fever
again." '^ Well, doctor," I answered him, ''fever or no
fever, I won't buy any more liniment, so good-by."

Six months later he thought differently. Eight here
I may mention that I had a conversation of a somewhat
similar character, and which resulted similarly, three
years afterward with a professor at the Columbia Col-
lege in New York City. I went to him with the expec-
tation of getting a little information concerning the
photographing of microbes. Without showing me his
apparatus or giving me any information, he told me it
4 .

50 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

could not be done. So I had to find out myself a way
in which to photograph microbes. The results of my
long investigations in this line are shown in the illustra-
tion in this book. I have proven that it can be done,
and successfully done too.

But to return to my antiseptic gas. I have shown
that my success did not come at once. In fact, the fail-
ures were so frequent and numerous that, had it not
been a question of life or death with me, the discovery
would never have been made. So I put all my energies
into it and persevered, with the result that at last I had
in my possession the means of killing microbes that had
all the requirements I had specified. I found a combina-
tion which was perfectly harmless to the person taking
it, and which kills microbes with certainty ; also one
which is quite different from anything hitherto num-
bered among curative agents. I tested it fully and as-
sured myself of its properties and powers.

I tried it upon myself, and the effects became appa-
rent almost immediately. I increased the dose gradually
until I found how much best suited me ; then I perse-
vered, and the effects showed themselves promptly.
Peculiar sensations were felt all over me, but especially
in the most afflicted regions, as though the microbes
were shifting about my body, but there w^ere no bad
effects whatever. My stomach became clean, fermenta-
tion ceased, my appetite improved, and digestion was
good. I increased the dose from three to six wineglass-
fuls a day, and grew weaker. My energies failed me
and I became depressed. Consequently I stopped taking
the microbe-killer for a few days till my stomach re-
covered itself, and then I renewed the treatment, but
regulated the doses by my feelings. For a long time I
felt very ill, some days being worse than others, but this
was readily accounted for by the low and weak condi-
tion to which I had been reduced, and my state of ner-
vous depression was extreme. The microbes that were
in my body probably did not like the treatment, and
they seemed to be constantly moving about. But I

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 51

knew that I had something which could not hurt me,
and I persevered steadily. I knew from my garden ex-
perience how difficult it is to get rid of weeds and to
cure plants of blight and fungi, especially when they
have been allowed to get ahead and to increase and flou-
rish undisturbed.

My blood must have been teeming with microbes
which had been propagating and increasing for years,
and it would have been folly for me to expect to get rid
of them in less than twelve months. My disease had
become chronic. It had remained so long that it had
almost grown to be a part of my system, a part of my
constitution, and it is always difficult to eradicate any
disease in that condition. But I had hope, and my hope
had grown into confidence. All my experiments came
back to me now and assured me that I was in the way
to get well, if such a way existed. So I went on, and
so favorable was my progress that at the end of three
months I felt almost a new man. I was considerably
better. I had no longer any attacks of rheumatism, and
the fever had abated so much that I felt only the slightest
symptoms of its approach. Sometimes I laughed to my-
self at the extraordinary cure, and at the thought that
a disease that had defied all physicians, all drugs and
remedies that could be suggested, all the advice of
friends and the rubbings of massage doctors, should be
got rid of by drinking water. My appetite became so
ravenous, and my digestive powers so strong, that I
could eat several pounds of meat daily, and it increased
my strength rapidly. My nervous prostration ceased,
my energies returned, no pains annoyed me, I slept well,
my mind became more acute, and there was every evi-
dence of an improved condition and much enrichment of
the blood. Of course my friends could not fail to observe
the change, but for a time they were puzzled to think
what was the matter with me. I kept the matter secret
for a long time, for I did not wish to offend my friends
or disturb the equanimity of the good doctors who had
so long and so faithfully administered to the welfare of

52

MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

my microbes. Six months after I had taken the first-
dose of microbe-killer I felt myself entirely cured of the
rheumatism. There were no more pains whatever of
any kind. The fever had also entirely gone, and the
piles were gradually disappearing and were almost well.
I then weighed one hundred and forty -four pounds, and.

WM. RADAM BEFORE TREATMENT.

had the appearance presented in the picture from a photo-
graph. My weight now is two hundred and five pounds.
I felt weak throughout the first year, especially at times,
but this was to be expected after the length of time that
I had been ill. My blood had become thin and was re-
duced to a very bad condition, so it required a long while
to be restored, and the system did not seem capable of re-
storing it as fast as the medicine removed the microbes.
When I first experienced an improvement I was curi-

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 53

ous to know how the microbe -killer would act in other
diseases, but I had some fears. I thought : ^^ Suppose I
give my remedy to some patient who is under the care
of a doctor, and suppose he should die from the poisons
that that physician would be giving him ; the blame
might be charged to my bottle, and I might get indicted
for manslaughter."

I knew such cases had happened, and I was well aware
that the doctors or their organization would be but too
glad to get hold of me and to put me in just such a posi-
tion. They do not tolerate any interference from out-
side their own body, and although they themselves may
kill, they do not allow other people even to cure if they
can help it. I thought so much of my discovery that I
dreamed of it, and one night it seemed to me that the
people must have it. After that I could not resist ask-
ing my workmen if they knew of any sick persons
around the neighborhood. ^' Yes," said one, '^ I know

a man, George P , who has consumption pretty bad.

His sister will probably die of it soon, for his whole
family have died of it." ^^Well," I thought, ^' if that
man dies nobody can blame me. " So I determined to
take the risk, and I gave orders to have the man brought
to me. He came, and I saw a mere skeleton. The man
had wasted away. He was pale and bloodless, with
sunken eyes and the hectic flash peculiar to phthisis ;
he was worn out with a cough and reduced to a terrible
degree of weakness. Death was staring him in the face,
and he well understood that the doctors held out no hope
for him. I talked to him and told him that I would give
him something to cure him. I explained that it had
cured me, and I was in a condition little better than his
own. I advised him how to use the water, and,requested
him to come around again soon and let me know how it
worked.

Another of my men told me of a woman who for six
months had been under a doctor's care, suffering from a
large growth and much pain in one of her breasts, and
.she wished also to try the preparation. But I explained

54 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

to the man that I could not give it for any such purpose,
because if the woman should die I should incur an awful
legal responsibility. At the same time, if he wanted to
take a gallon, there was one in the adjoining room.
The gallon soon disappeared, and I consoled myself with
the thought that if the woman died I could conscien-
tiously swear that I did not give her the water, as the old
man took it. Well, at the end of three weeks George

P made his appearance again at my house with an

empty jug, and he wanted it filled again. He com-
plained of pains shifting around in the neighborhood of
his waist, but said that otherwise he felt generally much
better. I let him understand that such a disease as his
could not be got rid of all at once, and that he must bear
patiently all that came, for he had given up all thought
of being cured and had reconciled himself to the belief
that he must die. At the same time I pointed out to
him that I had also abandoned all hope of being cured
and thought a speedy death was inevitable, but I had
been cured by means of this same preparation, and I
could see no reason why his chances were not at least as
good as mine. He went away encouraged and con-
tinued the treatment. Soon after a messenger came
from the woman for more medicine, and assured me
that the fearful pains she formerly suffered had almost
subsided. This gave me courage. I became now quite
fearless and gave her a second bottle, which in due time
sufficed to cure her. The man improved steadily, but
his sister, under the doctor's care, died. In a short time
I had twenty female patients in Austin, Texas— one
with a cancer on the tongue, which disappeared after
she had used three gallons. Three of these ladies had
been given up by the doctors, who saw no possibility of
lengthening their lives except by an operation. Certifi-
cates of cures from these patients have been published
in the Austin papers, and some equally valuable appear
in my pamphlets.

My plan was this : I used persuasion and advocated
perseverance. No matter how low the patients might

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE KILLER. 55

Le, I induced them not to give up taking the remedy. I
merely required them not to use any other medicine
(except purgatives), but to faithfully take the water, to
let me know what progress they made from time to
time, and on these conditions I undertook to supply all
the medicine that was necessary. All, without a single
exception, were cured, provided they came to me in good
time. If the doctors abandoned them and they died,
no blame could attach to me, so I had nothing to fear
from the medical profession. The cases that came to
me were all different. Some had local diseases, others
described their ailments as being general all over the
body. They told me all the}^ had done, the quantity of
medicine they had taken without any effect, and the
trouble and misery they had gone through. Some told
me pitiful tales of how all their money had been spent
in doctors' bills and drugs until they were reduced to the
last stage of poverty as well as disease.

But, notwithstanding my astonishing success in the
treatment of all forms of disease that came to me, I was
very reluctant to jump into the medicine business and
to abandon my flowers, amid which I felt like a father
among his children.

During a stay of eighteen years in Texas I had im-
proved thirty acres, and had a fine place and a comfort-
able home such as is not often seen west of the Missis-
sippi. I was fond of country life, gloried in my flowers,
fruits, and trees, loved to be among the birds and the
fish, and felt all the enjoyment that belongs to the
sportsman. There are health and pleasure in a life amid
Nature's works which the city resident never enjoys, and
I am happiest with them. There are anxieties and
cares everywhere, but more independence in the cultiva-
tion of the soil than in any mercantile pursuit that can
be followed ; and I was loath to give all this up for the
toil, vexation, and trouble of such a career as would be
before me if I entered upon the business that my suc-
cessful discovery opened out before me. Moreover there
were other inducements to keep me where I was. I had

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MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

expended many thousands of dollars in improvements
such as are seldom seen in the nursery business.

In addition to flowers I had gone into fish culture. I
had five pools well stocked with German carp, and as
my health improved I felt myself young again, more
anxious than ever before to enjoy the pleasures of the
life I had prepared for myself, and more enthusiastic
also in my work. A steam pump supplied five hundred
gallons of water per minute, and my fountains were
filled with goldfish. The rosery contained a beautiful
collection of the finest flowers, and thousands of people

WM. kadam's nursery (thirty acres).

had come to admire it and to wander in amazement
among acres of pear trees, fruit trees, and vines of all
descriptions, and flowers without number growing
in the greatest luxuriance under the warm southern
sun.

To a lover of Nature the delights of such surroundings
are more than it is easy to describe, and they are in-
creased when is added the feeling that they are one's own
production, the result of one's own conception and labor.
It is no easy matter to tear one's self from such sur-

PLATE VIII

29 MICROCOCCUS OF SYPHILIS (Disse)

(in blood of syphilitics.)
X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

30. STONE IN THE BLADDER.

(PRODUCED BY MICROBES.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

^1. URIC ACID.

(PRODUCED BY MICROBES.)

X 60. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

32. BACILLI IN URINE.

X 1000 Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 57

Toundings when they so thoroughly accord with the
tastes and sympathies.

I at that time suppHed the Austin people with my
medicine free of charge, first for fun, perhaps not realiz-
ing the value of my discovery. But the news leaked
out. People began to talk about my medicine, and some
of them came to my garden and begged with tears in
their eyes to have some of the water. The wonders it
had done were common gossip, and people were telling
each other how this or that lady had been cured. I felt
for these people, for my heart beats for my neighbors as
brothers, and I had to neglect my garden and my flowers
to manufacture the medicine for those around me. Thus
the work of eighteen years was thrown away, for I am
sorry to say that my garden is gone. I turned over my
treasures to people who knew the value of money, and
by whom the higher merit of such things is not under-
stood. It was, however, a painful necessity. The con-
tinuous demand for ray preparation forced me to leave
the business that I had learned from my father, and it
has led me into so much worry and excitement that I
have many times regretted ever having made a business
of it. Under my groves of vines and fruit trees, in the
companionship of my flowers, and amid the delightfully
congenial surroundings of my Texan home I had enjoy-
ments which nothing since has compensated me for.

My success with the medicine of course satisfies me
that I must inflict a lasting injury upon medical science
as it now is, and as a consequence thousands of physi-
cians and others will become my enemies. Possibly I
may be regarded as a very bad man, not because I have
done any evil, but rather, I think, the reverse, but be-
cause I have done something different from others,
something that must interfere with their pursuits and
prejudices, and with their present means of livelihood.
That is the way of the world, and I will yet show the
reader something of the kind of people there are about,
s,nd of the meannesses of which they will be guilty to put,
by the devil's help, a few dollars into their own pockets.

58 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE- KILLER.

I know the world well enough to be quite aware that
as soon as my discovery was well before the public, and
its value known, there would be numberless imitations,
numberless thieves ready to steal my ideas, to counter-
feit my remedy, and to try to damage my reputation.
This last they cannot do, for my character as that of an
honorable, hard-working citizen is too well established
in the State of Texas, but they will try to make money
out of the endeavor. I have led a quiet life, minding my
own business and not looking after other people's, and
contests with the law or in the courts have never dis-
turbed me. The people in Austin had confidence in me,
and my publications on horticultural topics made me
well known, so that when the nature of my discovery
leaked out I found it useless to try and keep it secret,
and I published some account, first in the Austin States-
man of August 30th, 1887.

That was the first announcement made to the world
that I had discovered a remedy that would cure disease,
and of my theory that there is but one disease and one
cause of disease, no matter how varied the symptoms in
different cases may be. It was the first time, also, that
I laid claim to being the only man that could prove these
things, and who had experimental evidence of it gleaned
from a study of Nature. I showed at that time that all
disease is caused by microbes, and I described their or-
ganisms, producing at the same time testimonials from
persons who had been cured, but who had been given up
as incurable by the doctors. This created an excitement
throughout the country, and it particularly stirred up
the physicians who heard of it, and all interested in the
medical profession. It was at this time that we first
began to sell medicine in a business way. I kept up my
publications, and almost every week I had printed testi-
monials and evidences of cure, occasionally, too, of very
complicated diseases. I was not interfered with, for I
killed nobody, and of course any man may cure another
with water if he likes.

There are no laws against curing or even treating an-

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 5^

other person ; but if the person dies, then if the man who
treated him be not a physician, protected by a piece of
parchment, the case is one of manslaughter, and he is
liable to suffer all the pains and penalties of that offence.
When a person is sick he may put himself in the care of
anybody he pleases; but if he happen to die, his attend-
ant may possibly incur a punishment of lifelong im-
prisonment. That is the law here, and it prevails in
Europe also. I therefore ran some risk ; for although I
knew that my medicine was not injurious, yet the peo-
ple who came to me for treatment were often in the ad-
vanced stages of disease, and if any of them had died
while taking my medicine there were plenty of doctors
in the neighborhood ready to take advantage and to
have me indicted for manslaughter. And it was not the
doctors only, for success always creates jealousies, and
there were people who, for reasons of their own, did not
want me to succeed, and they too would have taken ad-
vantage of any opportunity to ruin me.

My life at this period became very exciting, very dif-
ferent from the peaceful times I had had among my
flowers. People from all directions wrote to me for in-
formation, and sometimes they sent me a description of
their ailments. These letters were marvels of composi-
tion. A person afflicted with some chronic complaint
perhaps must have sat down for half a day's work to
describe all his troubles. Possibly he would fill half a
dozen sheets of paper, and close his letter without halv-
ing told anything that an ordinary physician would have
felt it necessary to know. But I knew that his symp-
toms were of secondary importance. They were inte-
resting to have, but not essential, because all disease is
due to the same cause and requires but one cure.

I could not always make my correspondents under-
stand this. They had been accustomed to have the most
minute inquiries made by their doctors, and they could
not comprehend how I could go to work and cure people
without getting the minutest information and asking
them an infinite lot of questions. They seemed to think

60 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

it impossible that I could put up the right medicine
without knowing every particular, and perhaps some of
them may have felt a little distrust on that account.
But if their confidence failed them it was not to be won-
dered at. They had been deceived so often that they
were naturally suspicious, and when people who wanted
all details had failed, and I undertook to cure without
such minute information, their suspicions were not likely
to be lessened. I often had great difficulty in explaining
this, and that I had only one remedy and one way of
using it, which is all tha,t is necessary, as there is but one
cause of disease.

Then, again, they could hardly believe that I, who had
myself been so long a victim to disease, and who had
been so often deceived — I, too, a nurseryman and florist,
could have discovered a remedy which thousands of
physicians and men of science had been looking for in
vain. It perhaps seemed strange. There were men en-
gaged in scientific studies, devoting their lives to the
treatment of disease, to the examination of remedies,
aided with money, power, and protection from the law,
with all the resources possible in this world to such kind
of research, and they had failed ; while I, a plain man,
from a so-called backwoods country, without any such
advantages, with very little money, and without any
protection, had been able to start a discovery of my own
which would revolutionize medical science, upturn all
old theories, stop the processes of deception, enlighten
the people on matters most important to themselves, and
all by a simple and efficacious cure. This was done by
simply putting natural proofs before the public, so that
they could not fail to believe what they saw, in place of
going out of my way to describe some evil spirit that I
had not seen. I had raised a foundation that no power
in the world can break down, and the reader who will
follow me to the end will see that I have been able to
ward off all kinds of attacks, some of them of the most
infamous and malicious character, absolutely untruthful,
and based upon ignorance where they were not inspired

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 61

by the worst motives. I have defeated such attacks in-
variably, and with the help of the pubHc w^hom I shall
have enlightened I can go on and beat down all opposi-
tion, whether it comes from a want of knowledge or from
evil minds and jealousy. My army of friends, patients,
and supporters is growing day by day, and there are
hundreds, nay thousands, of physicians assisting me in
the exposure of medical science as it is taught in the
schools and practised in the hospitals and medical col-
leges.

It was at Austin, Texas, my own home, that the peo-
ple first enabled me to introduce this medicine through-
out the broad land of America, and they did so because
they saw I cured the people who came to me. Many of
them had influential friends elsewhere in the United
States, and they sent to them accounts of the fame of
my discovery. Frequently they forwarded medicine at
the same time to persons whom they knew to be in need
of treatment, and often my circulars went with it. The
only publication I had at that time was a small four-
page print, and it brought me hundreds of people who
benefited by the treatment and then themselves adver-
tised the wonderful powers of my discovery. But my
business grew so rapidly, and so earnest a desire was
evinced to know more about my medicine, that I soon
found it necessary to enlarge my publications, and what
was at first but four small pages grew in two years to a
large octavo pamphlet of fifty pages. This contains in
not the least valuable portion a number of testimonials
from persons who have been cured by my treatment,
and they are unimpeachable.

Still the public curiosity was not satisfied. .Intense
interest was very naturally felt in the discovery, which
was recognized as something not only wonderful in its
effects, but evidently calculated to bring about a sweep-
ing reform in the management of disease and in the
methods of medical men. Further than that, I had in
self-defence to protect myself against the machinations
of unprincipled people, and for that there seemed to be

62 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

nothing better than to take the pubUc into my confi-
dence as fully as possible. Hence the reason for my
preparing this book, which is an emanation simply of
my own brain, with a statement of my own thoughts
and experiences. It is original. I am not indebted to
any other books for ideas or opinions, nor to any hear-
say evidence upon the topics touched upon. It is my
own property, the result of my own hard work, and I
hope that it will be respected as such and that no one
will steal or pilfer its contents.

There is no permission from me to anybody to use my
writings ; whoever takes them steals, and when the
thief is caught justice and the law shall be meted out to
him.

Almost from the first the cures I made with my medi-
cine were reported far and wide. The reputation of my
discovery spread rapidly. Many who had been under
physicians' care took it and found themselves benefited
as they never had been before. Others had recourse to
it as soon as they felt themselves sick, and they were
relieved so readily and satisfactorily that they had no
occasion to apply to a doctor at all. It was therefore
quite natural and not at all to be wondered at that physi-
cians should begin to take an interest in it. They wanted
to learn something about a discovery which was thus so
materially affecting their interests. But before learning
anything they condemned it. Their plan was to hang
their man first and try him after. All that they knew
about the microbe -killer when they first abused it was
that it was interfering with their business. They began
by telling the most wonderful stories about it. They
described to their female patients what a terrible thing it
was, and that, if they took it, it would in a short time burn
up the coating of the stomach, producing incurable dis-
ease and ultimately death. But while painting this alarm-
ing picture they saw that, like all such things, it would
have its day and then die out. They gave it twelve
months in which to disappear and be heard of no more.

I heard all this, and it amused me, the more so be-

DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROBE-KILLER. 63

<;ause I found that some of the doctors who so energeti-
cally condemned it were using it themselves. Life is
sweet, and while there is life there is hope, u^groto
dum anima spes est. So the sick doctors, when their
own medicine failed them, had enough hope left to try
mine, and they got well. But they would not give me
credit for it. They were afraid, because every sick man
cured by me was so much loss to them. So they went
on abusing me and at the same time seeking my help.
How could I avoid laughing at such a scene ?

The demand continued to increase. It grew beyond
my ability to meet it, and I was forced into making
arrangements for meeting the requirements of what had
now become a most successful business. This indicates
the success that has fallen to me, and the appreciation
which the public have bestowed upon my remedy ; for
people are not slow to determine the merits of some-
thing that is what it is represented to be, and there are
none of us of sane mind who do not set good health as
higher in value than gold.

CHAPTER VII.

FAILURE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Why medicine fails to cure disease is a proposition
that we have all, at some time or other, probably asked
ourselves. It is an important problem, and one that
should be solved. But, at the outset, I am reminded of
a question which, it is said, was once proposed to the
Roman senators: ''Why does a pail of water with a
fish swimming in it weigh no more than the same pail
of water without the fish ? " It is said that a long dis-
cussion took place over this, and that various explana-
tions were suggested, until some one fell back on experi-
ment, and then it was discovered that the water with
the fish in it did weigh more.

So, in the question, why does medicine fail to cure
disease ? I may be required to show first that it does
fail. I have no objection to this ; on the contrary, it is
a logical and a proper way to proceed, clearing as we
go. At the same time the too frequent failure of medi-
cine as a science must be evident to every observer. We
have no right to ask that the doctors shall cure under
aU circumstances and all conditions. But we all know
quite well that medicine fails when we are justified in
looking for success. Physicians themselves are aware
that, while their best talent and abilities may be given
to a patient, he nevertheless dies, and often they live to
look back upon the case with regrets that, with in-
creased knowledge of Nature, a different result might
have been attained.

All medicines that are employed to-day, whether inor-
ganic or organic, should be antiseptics — that is, agents
capable of preventing fermentation. Now, there are
many such in use by the medical profession, and in

PLATE IX.

38. MICROCOCCUS BERI BERI FLATUS.

(A SCROFULOUS DISEASE IN INDIA.)

X ^500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

35. STREPTOCOCCUS ERYSIPELATIS.

(OF ERYSIPELAS.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

34. BACILLUS OF LEPROSY.

(IN SECTION OF SKIN.)

X 1500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

^.^2a

Wri^m

36. BACILLUS DIPHTHERI^E (Loeffler).

X 2500. Photomicrograph by W. Radam.

FAILURE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. 65

order that there shall be no misunderstandiDg I will
advert to one or two of the most characteristic. First
of all is bichloride of mercury, an agent so powerful that
it can only be administered internally in minute doses,
and which even then, and with the closest watching,
produces poisonous effects.

Salicylic acid is also an antiseptic, but serious con-
sequences have sometimes followed its use. The poison-
ous qualities of carbolic acid are well known. It is one
of the most powerful corrosive poisons known, and yet
druggists distribute it freely and will sell it to anybody
who asks for it. A case is recorded by Dr. Billroth, of
Vienna, where a patient lost four fingers by gangrene
produced through the application of carbolic acid to a
trifling wound. Its effects are very rapid. A marine
hospital steward swallowed a small quantity by mistake,
and was dead within three minutes ; and a case is men-
tioned in Philadelphia where a man entered a drug store^
purchased a very small quantity of the strong acid,
drank it, and was dead before he could leave the store.
Moreover, carbolic acid is not as powerful a germicide as
some other things in use by the profession.

Permanganate of potash is so active that one grain in
twenty-four hours is a full dose. Iodoform, nitrate of
silver (common caustic), are also in use, and arsenic is a
favorite antiseptic. Two grains of arsenious acid have
proved fatal, and a fourth of a grain may produce poison-
ous symptoms. Arsenic is the basis of many quack pre-
parations and forms the active agent in complexion
wafers, cancer plasters and ointments, and of many
compounds that are sold in unlimited quantities in the
stores and by advertising adventurers. It is an accu-
mulative poison. Its effects may not be injuriously
apparent until it has been used for some time, and they
then appear in full severity, producing symptoms not
unlike Asiatic cholera, only with more pain. Thirst is
intense, consciousness usually remains to the last, but
not always, and convulsions, tetanus, and severe vomit-
ing often precede a state of collapse and death.
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66 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Besides the injurious effects produced upon the tissues
and the system generally, even where no seriously poi-
sonous results follow, many of these poisons are inju-
rious to the teeth and to the appearance of the skin —
another fact which should militate against their use.
All are antiseptics of more or less power, but what is
wanted is an antiseptic that can do no injury to the pa-
tient, but which shall at the same time be effectual and of
such a nature that it may be taken in large quantities,
so as to thoroughly saturate the tissues. It must be
capable of absorption, so that it will enter the blood. It
must be adapted to check, for instance, such damage to
the blood corpuscles as I previously explained to have
been observed in malaria, where the microbe acts di-
rectly upon the vital fluid and destroys the corpuscles
by attaching itself to them and absorbing them, as it
were, into itself. It must be fitted to take part in the
circulation without poisonous effects, and yet to be so
destructive of microbe life that it will at once destroy it,
and in that "v^ay free the system of all germs of disease.

Physicians have never yet discovered any drug that is
as harmless as water and yet as powerful, in the right
way, as any of those agents I have mentioned from
among the list of poisons. They can have no such medi-
cine, for if they had they could cure disease, and that
they certainly cannot do, for persons die long before they
get old, and they should not do that if the diseases to
which they are subject are curable. I have tested most
of the drugs in general use, with a view to ascertain
whether they have any real power over the existence of
micro-organisms independently of other properties, be-
cause a drug may be a very powerful poison and still not
be an antiseptic ; and I have found that not one-half of
the agents mentioned in medical works, or of the formu-
las recommended from time to time in medical period-
icals, have any antiseptic properties at all. In a large
number of instances the whiskey or alcohol used in the
manufacture of tinctures and other preparations plays
the most important part, and it is used, in fact, itself as

FAILURE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. 67

an antiseptic to preserve the drug from fermentation—
in other words, to destroy or keep away fungi and mi-
crobes. This is of the utmost importance, since a drug
that is in the process of fermentation is no medicine. It
has no curative properties. The more of it that passes
into the stomach the more fermentation goes on in the
system, and disease is rather increased than diminished.
But if you can find a preparation that does not ferment,
and which you can take into the stomach in large quan-
tities and continuously for weeks and months, so that
the blood and the whole system become saturated with
it, then you have a good medicine and one in which you
may place full confidence. But, as I said before, you
may go over the whole Pharmacopoeia, and examine the
catalogues of drugs that are in use or for sale, and you
will not find one that fills these requirements.

My inquiries into Nature's processes, and into the
remedies in use for treatment of disease in both plants
and animals, have not been superficial. I have gone into
them deeply. My studies have not been restricted, and
I have exercised my thoughts carefully, so that I feel
that I can enter into Nature's mysteries understandingly
and to some practical purpose.

It is acknowledged by its disciples that medical science
has made great progress during the past half -century,
and that it is still advancing year by year. This shows
at least that it is not an exact science, that is, not per-
fect, but that new discoveries can be made, changes can
be effected, and, possibly, what is now considered ex-
cellent may ere long be discarded in practice for some-
thing that is at present unknown, or at any rate unac-
cepted. It follows, therefore, that, if the door for
improvement be open, nobody should be precluded from
entering because he happens not to be a graduate of a
medical college.

No day passes but illustrations occur everywhere of the
fact that medicine fails to cure, and that, too, where
failure should be impossible. The reason of this is what
I propose to elucidate, and, in order to do it, it is of

68 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

little use to theorize. We must discover facts ; we must
look at the matter in a practical way, and endeavor to
deal with it so that it can be readily understood by any
one who wants something more than a string of techni-
calities.

The reader has probably indulged in the perusal of
medical books which tell him how to cure himself.
Most of the books which attempt to popularize these
subjects are pernicious. They give symptoms and rem-
edies. They draw the usual differences between ail-
ments, and define particular remedies for each. People
who read them are prone to imagine themselves afflicted
with symptoms that they see described, and many get
up from their perusal convinced that they have cancer or
Bright's disease, or consumption, or heart trouble, when
in truth they have nothing whatever the matter with
them, or, at most, a disordered stomach.

From my point of view they are yet more pernicious,
being bad not only in their consequences, but in their
principles. For the position I take is entirely at variance
with that which the advice of the usual family physi-
cian supports. My discovery, as may be gleaned from
what I have already said, is entirely different from any-
thing that has ever been introduced from the beginning
to the present day for the purpose of curing disease.
My proposition is simple, but it comes from study and
observation of Nature. I have found that all disease
may be concentrated under one head. It may assume
different forms in different persons. It may be known,
for instance, as fever in one, pneumonia in another,
diphtheria in a third, cholera or diarrhoea in a fourth,
and so on. But the differences which give . rise to the
necessity for using such names are merely details. There
is, in truth, but one disease. It develops in various
ways. It produces different symptoms, all of which
are dependent upon conditions, some of which may
readily be defined. But, in the first instance, disease is
uniform. And just as there is actually but one disease,
so there is but one cause of disease, and that may be

FAILURE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. 69

limited in the common acceptation of the one word "de-
cay. " But what is decay ? The visible result of fermen-
tation. And what is fermentation? The phenomena
produced in organic matter by the action of microbes.

In this consideration, and for all practical purposes, it
is quite immaterial to know the peculiarity of the mi-
ci'obe that we find in any particular instance. It may
be interesting to the close observer to watch the forms
and mode of evolution of these little creatures, and it
may be satisfactory so to differentiate their forms and
habits as to be able to classify and to name them. But
this does not affect the mode of cure. A microbe is a
microbe. The same treatment affects them, the same
curative agent kills them, whatever their form or what-
ever be the effects which they produce. The only dif-
ference that we notice is in regard to time, some ail-
ments being more readily reached than others.

It is not of so much consequence to the farmer to know
what weeds are in his cornfield, as it is to learn the best
means of cutting them down and keeping them out of
his crops. He need not be a botanist. He does not re-
quire to know the natural order and the generic and
specific names of a plant before he puts the hoe to it ;
nor does he pause to learn the construction of its fibres
and the character of its cells. He merely recognizes it
as a noxious plant, and he destroys it. Neither is it of
much consequence to him to know that weeds are not
all alike. It is enough to be sure that they are weeds,
and he applies the same remedy to get them out of the
way. If his crops look yellow, or show evidences of
rust and disease, he does not go to his study, to his
microscope and his books, in order to satisfy himself
"what sort of microbe or fungus it is that is endangering
his property, but he goes to work in a practical manner
io cure the disease and to rid himself of the pest. It is not
necessary to learn the particular character of the fungi
that he sees on his plants, his fences, his timber, or his
house ; all he wants is to be convinced that they are
there and that they are injurious, and he immediately

70 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

tries to find out and to apply the remedy for their de-
struction.

Let me not be misunderstood. I have not a word
against scientific investigation. I understand too well
its value. I would not disparage the spirit which leads
to a close examination of the minutest of Nature's
works. On the contrary, I am interested in their descrip-
tion. I prize the work which shows me their distinctive
peculiarities of structure, form, size, properties, mode of
existence and development ; and I appreciate the pa-
tience and the skill of those who pursue such a course of
investigation, and are capable of arranging for scientific
purposes these most wonderful organisms. But, at the
same time, I hold that, for purposes of curing only the
diseases to which the human body is subject, it is not
necessary that we should know the form, size, develop-
ment, and classification of the microbes that produce
disease. There may be one or a dozen, each producing
its own symptoms or affecting different parts. You do
not stop to examine them and give them their place in
the lists of science ; you only ask how to get rid of them,
how to restore the health and preserve the body from
their depredations. To delay for the sake of diagnosis
is simply to waste valuable time. It is one of the errors
of so-called scientific medicine, and should have nothing
to do with the cure. The thing of all importance is the
remedy. I am acquainted with a large number of vari-
ous forms of disease germs, but I do not know all, and I
could never learn to know them, because the micro-
organisms hybridize and produce new forms, and, of
course, each one exhibits some different characteristics
in habit and results, while they have their special pabu-
lum, some being found in plants or animals and others
in man. This I purpose to demonstrate by practical evi-
dence derived from observation of Nature, and I shall
certainly be able to sustain the truth of my position.
So much has been written which cannot be proved, so
many promises are made which cannot be kept, and in
various ways the people are held so much in ignorance

I

FAILURE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. 71

of things which they ought to know, that their confi-
dence is weakened in all. They have been blindfolded
and led astray so often that they distrust everybody who
offers to enlighten and lead them, however much he
knows himself to be in the right. But facts should con-
vince, and I think I can in every instance produce facts
to prove all that I claim.

I wish this to be distinctly understood. I set no value
on theory. My studies have been practical. The ground-
work of my discoveries is in observation of Nature. I
say nothing which I cannot prove, nothing which is
not appreciable to the senses. I rely entirely upon facts
to sustain the value of what I have done. I do not claim
that the field I have wrought in is untrodden. Thousands
of investigators and of the brightest intellects in the
world are at work in it. The problem of how to stop
fermentation, to destroy fungi, and to prevent the ap-
pearance and neutralize the development and operation
of microbes is being well handled, but the solution is
here.

We paint our houses not only because they look better
painted, but because this process preserves them from
decay. The paint checks or stops the development of
micro-organisms which find their favorite resting place
in wood, brick, or stone, and the best material of that
kind is the one which most certainly produces such re-
sult. The painter or builder does not stop to inquire the
nature of the fungus that threatens him. He does not
trouble himself about a scientific investigation. He
knows that there is a danger to be met. He knows
how to meet it. He understands the remedy to be ap-
plied, and he applies it. He is also well aware that the
oftener he applies it, and the more effective he makes
the application, the better will he preserve his property.
One coat of paint is useful, but several are necessary.
The matter requires constant attention. The steady
repetition of the remedy alone secures all the advantage
and makes the protection perfect.

On the same principle upon which tar and creosote

72 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

are applied to timber do we submit meat to the effects
of wood smoke. This permeates the substance, kills
microbes, and of course prevents their development. It
would indeed be easy to cite thousands of cases where
applications of a more or less poisonous character are
used, which would kill not only microbes but every liv-
ing thing, whether animal or vegetable. The embalming
of bodies, now so fashionable, is nothing more than a
use of poisonous solutions calculated to prevent the pro-
cess of decomposition or fermentation, and many of the
so-called remedies used by physicians to treat disease
are likewise of a highly poisonous character. Some-
times what seem to be simple and harmless remedies
are not so. An Italian physician has recently suggested
the use of sulphur in the treatment of typhoid fever, but
in enormous doses frequently repeated. He would also
cover the patient and the bedclothes with sulphur, and,
to the ordinary reader, this may seem a very innocent
remedy. But chemical changes take place, and the
well-known yellow powder is converted into very ener-
getic compounds, and it then becomes a question
whether the microbes or the patient will die first. That
is all. Again, many of the compounds advertised for
popular application are extremely dangerous, and too
much caution cannot be exercised in their use, though
people who are wise will leave such things alone alto-
gether and fall back upon those only which are known
not to be injurious.

The pharmacist may look with pride upon his well-
filled shelves, where arsenic and corrosive sublimate
stand side by side with morphia, carbolic acid, lauda-
num, nux vomica, chloral, creosote, chloroform, and a
host of similar preparations, all of which are used by
physicians to kill microbes, or, as they say, to cure dis-
ease. And these things do kill microbes, but not until
the blood and the tissues are saturated with them, and
then the effect is not for a day but forever. No one
denies that we can kill microbes in the human system
by soaking the body with poisonous substances, just as

PLATE X.

87. BACILLUS TUSSIS CONVULSIVl?:.

(SPASM— KRAEMPFE.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

38. BACILLUS NEAPOLITANUS

(Emerick).

(FOUND IN CHOLERA INFANTUM.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

f-if,.,^

0^

Ws.-

/

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\

39. BACILLUS ENDOCARDITIDIS
GRISEUS.

(ENDOCARDITIS.)

X 1500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

40. BACILLUS BUTYRICUS.

(OF RANCID BUTTER.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

FAILURE Ol^ MEDICAL SCIENCE. 73

the embalmer attains a similar end by similar means,
but it is at the cost of the patient's life. The body may
be filled throughout — the blood, bones, muscles, nerves,
all the tissues, may be filled with a poisonous antiseptic,
just as the railroad tie may be permeated with creosote,
and assuredly the microbes will be killed and their pro-
pagation will be rendered impossible, but the body will
be killed, too. And, on the other hand, if the railroad
tie be not thoroughly soaked it will not be preserved,
while the body, if not effectually saturated with poison,
will not be freed from microbes, and consequently will
not be put out of danger. That is the dilemma in
which any person is who places himself at the mercy of
medical science as it is practised. The remedy is worse
than the disease. If he does not die of the one he does
of the other, or if he gets well it is because his system
was superior to both. The only escape that he has is to
find something which, while it effectually destroys mi-
crobes and prevents fermentation, does not act injuri-
ously upon the bodily organization. It is useless to
take a small quantity of a poison which is insufficient to
kill the microbe, and it is fatal to take a larger amount,
which, while staying the disease, is itself destructive.

I have no fear that the many able, learned, and
progressive men that the medical profession numbers
among its members will read these strictures as apply-
ing to them. I have no contention with physicians,
many of whom are my most favorable critics, but I war
against bad methods and false principles.

CHAPTER VIII.

HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY.

I WILL now go back to the first few months while my
discovery was before the pubhc. This will necessitate
the narration of several interesting incidents which have
taken place in the interval.

It will readily be understood that my correspondence
has been large. For some time I was in direct personal
communication with my patients. They would write
me full particulars with all details of their complaints
as far as they could give them, and all such letters I
replied to personally, giving advice as to the best way
to use the remedy and all necessary instructions. But
people soon acquired confidence. They soon learned
what to do. The reputation of the medicine spread,
and people ordered it without writing any particulars
or asking any information. In this way thousands of
people have availed themselves of it, but of whose mala-
dies I know nothing. The information that came to
me was surprising, but it is not necessary to detail it
here. Where full statements were given I learned the
varieties of the disease that doctors described, the effects
of climate, the quantity of medicine that had been swal-
lowed, and the large sums of money spent in fees and
drugs which had entirely failed to do any good.

I had letters containing pitiful stories of distress and
misery quite unalleviated by the medicines prescribed,
and many wrote me who said that they were bedridden ;
others, that they were nearly helpless and unable to
move ; and others, again, whose powers to work and earn
their living had been terribly interfered with. I was at
times amazed at the revelations put before me, and
found in all an indorsement of the results of my own

HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY. T5

experiments and a further proof that the doctors ignore
Nature's teachings and work in ignorance and darkness.
When a patient came to me or wrote me for advice, I
always explained to him his situation, describing the
action of microbes, and how, when thoroughly in con-
trol of the human system, they produce a general con-
dition of fermentation and rottenness. I let him al-
ways understand that a total renovation was necessary,
that the purification of the blood must be complete, that
no microbes or causes for fermentation must be left
behind. This was an absolute necessity ; and then it
would have to be seen how much healthy portion re-
mained. The whole treatment was different from any-
thing they had been accustomed to, and my advice may
sometimes have opened their eyes and given them new
ideas ; but I can conscientiously and truthfully say that
in every instance where my counsel was listened to and
my instructions were followed a care was effected, no
matter what name the doctors may have given to the
complaint. Where advice was not followed, when the
patient went by his own judgment and rejected the
rules laid down for him, the treatment was not entirely
successful, and I never expected that it would be.

I treated all m.y patients with the same medicine, just
as in my garden I would treat all weeds alike. There
are endless varieties 'of weeds, a very large number of
which are familiar to me by name, but that would not
cause me to pause about their extermination or the
method of effecting it. What matters it what the
scientific name of a weed may be ? So long as it is a
weed, that suffices. It is swept away. We do not
adopt one method of removal for one kind, and another
for another. It may be interesting to the botanist to
classify his plants, to name them and describe them,
but that kind of knowledge is of only secondary moment
to the practical gardener, who wants to see the most
vigorous health and growth among things that are his
special care.

Suppose a gardener were to see one of his flower-beds

T6 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

overrun with weeds of various descriptions, and were to
tell his assistant first to classify those weeds, then to
pull up one kind, afterward to cut off another, and so
on. By the time the work was accomplished the flowers
would be smothered to death, and new weeds would be
coming up where the first had been removed.

So it is with disease in the human body. We are not
to waste time and endanger the patient's health by
trifling about special symptoms. We know the person
is sick. We know the cause of his sickness ; let us,
then, remove that cause, and the person will be well.
If we choose to talk among ourselves about his symp-
toms, that will not harm anybody, but we have no right
to endanger a patient's life or to delay his cure. Did
you ever go into a hospital when a leading physician is
going around the wards ? A new patient may have
come in whose case particularly interests him. He will
stop at the bedside of that patient, and, although the
poor fellow may be too sick to rise or turn, he will spend
half an hour pounding and thumping him, listening to
his heart and his lungs, and going through a tedious
ceremony, simply to try and diagnose some minute
points which have nothing whatever to do with the cure
or with the mode of treatment that the, disease calls for.
It looks scientific. It tends to surround the doctor's
calling with a halo of mystery. It deceives the patient
and the public. It keeps them in ignorance. It hides
from them the true simplicity of medicine and disease,
and leads them to suppose that there can be no chance
for them in this world or the next if they attempt to
cure themselves without a physician's aid. Diagnosing
disease is simply blindfolding the public, but physicians
dare not acknowledge it, for if they did their glorious
work would be undone, their services would not be
needed, and they would have to fall back upon other
occupations.

I have ever been a close observer of human nature and
of the world, and I have seen a great deal of it ; but
never till my discovery came before the pubhc was 1

I

HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY. 7T

aware of the numberless tricks and devices that are
used to deceive and take advantage of the sick. There
seems to be something very heartless in a system which
enables any set of men to avail themselves of the time
when a person is suffering, and perhaps in despair, to
prey upon his credulities in order to draw money from
his purse. Many physicians are more regardful of their
own honor and the people's rights, and when they waste
time in diagnosis it is done in ignorance. They believe
they are enlightening themselves and serving their pa-
tient, not knowing that all the trouble they take is
unnecessary.

While expressing this opinion, I cannot be blind to
the spirit of charity which abounds in the medical pro-
fession, whose members certainly do more for their
fellow- men, without thought or hope of reward, than
any people who depend upon their own efforts for their
livelihood. People owe more to the physician than they
acknowledge or perhaps realize. Nevertheless medical
science is imperfect, medical ethics are obstructive, and
medical men, even when acting up to the fullest re-
quirements of their profession, are too often in a rut
that leads them to error and militates against the best
interests of the sick.

There is much evidence at hand of the value of my dis-
covery. It may not be necessary. I have probably ad-
duced enough already to satisfy my readers, but I wish
to make this work as complete and as thorough as pos-
sible. I must therefore cover the whole ground, in jus-
tice both to myself and to the public. I have already
mentioned that some of the doctors foretold how my
discovery would go the way of quack medicines, by
which they meant that in a few months it would be for-
gotten. The present state of my business, the facts that
there are many factories engaged in making the microbe-
killer, that it is already established throughout the
United States and is being sought after in Europe, in
other parts of the great American continent, and in Aus-
tralia, all go to show what false prophets those doctors

78 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

were. In place of going the way of worthless quack
medicines, the microbe-killer has become an essential in
thousands of homes, and it has cured thousands of peo-
ple also whom the doctors had failed to relieve. It has
risen rapidly into public favor.

Every one who has been cured by it recommends it, and
so the microbe-killer goes over the world on its merits.
Its success has demonstrated its merits, and it has shown
also that it supplied a want, that people's confidence in
medical science was failing, that they were ready to
grasp at something that promised to enlighten them
and cure them.

Other physicians treated the matter less lightly. In-
stead of ostensibly regarding it as of no importance and
soon to perish for want of support, they cautioned their
patients against it. Some said boldly that it was dan-
gerous, that it would destroy the tissues and intensify
disease instead of mitigating it. In reply to such ima-
ginings people came forward who had been cured, and
others mentioned the names of friends who had likewise
been cured. Of course there was no getting over facts
like that, so then the doctors took other ground. They
acknowledged that possibly it might have some benefi-
cial effects in diseases produced by microbes, but that it
would be absolutely worthless and even dangerous in
such diseases as are not caused by microbes. When I
heard this I offered to give my check for one hundred
dollars to any one who would name a disease that is not
caused by microbes, and who could prove his position.
The offer has not yet been accepted, and it still remains
open. Here is a chance for some of the young students
at our medical schools and colleges, to any one of whom
I shall be most happy to render that amount of pecuni-
ary assistance if he will earn it by complying with the
conditions. His discovery would immortalize him. He
might carry his piece of parchment out into the world
with the fame of having been a successful explorer in a
region where others had groped in darkness. He would
have made a discovery that never has been made, de-

HISTORY OF MY DISCOVERY.

79

Spite all the knowledge of human ills and all the science
of which the medical profession claims to have a mon-
opoly.

Those persons who have followed me through the pre-
ceding pages will see readily why the reward has never
been called for. Disease is fermentation, and fermenta-
tion without microbes is impossible. Therefore disease
must be accompanied by microbes. You cannot have
an effect without a cause, and where a particular effect
can be produced only by one cause it is at once appa-
rent what that cause must be. Nothing is easier than to
talk and to say what is and what is not, but talking is
of no value in an assertion without proof, and directly
we come down to proof my position is impregnable.
The few doctors who say that disease can exist without
microbes are either ignorant or guilty of wilful deception,
and they show their weakness by refusing my offer.
When a disease has been years in the system it has be-
come almost a part of it. Indeed, there are instances
where an old complaint having been apparently re-
moved, another, in a different form, makes its appear-
ance, showing that an abnormal condition has become
so much a part of the being as to be rendered almost
normal. In a chronic disease the entire body is more
or less involved. But when the trouble has been of short
duration only, it may be but local ; or, if not, it certainly
has not acquired the same hold upon the constitution.
It is therefore very clear why a chronic disease requires
greater patience and more steady perseverance if we
would remove it entirely.

The example of the weeds in the garden illustrates
this again. Where they are few and of but short dura-
tion they yield readily to our efforts for their removal,
but when they have seeded through several seasons they
resemble a chronic disease in man, and are more difficult
to deal with and require a longer time. Then note the
effect of weeds, and our illustration goes farther. Ob •
serve a field of corn where the land is clean and in good
order, and compare it with the adjoining field, where,

80 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

although, the land may be of the same nature, it is cov-
ered with weeds. In the one the corn is strong and vig-
orous, the stalks and leaves are clean, and the plants
show every indication of thriving. In the other the
stalks are small and slender, the leaves are sickly and
pale in color, and in every probability there is evidence
of fungus having attacked it. This, if left to itself, feeds
upon the unthrifty plants, and soon they die for want
of air and sustenance, crowded out of existence by a
host of enemies that followed quickly on the impover-
ished condition caused by the weeds surrounding them.
So in the case of a person suffering from chronic disease.
He has something that, like the weeds, impoverishes the
soil, feeds on his life blood, and gradually drags him
down to death. Then where a neglected cornfield is
cleaned and the weeds removed you may have observed
how it looks shocked ; it has an appearance as though
it were going to die, and continues so until it gets a
start. Then, there being nothing around it to draw
nourishment away from the soil or to deprive it of the
vivifying effects of the air, it grows thicker and stronger,
blossoms, bears fruit, perfects its seed, and, having ful-
filled its mission, it dies of old age.

It is necessary I should mention these things in order
to carry conviction to the mind of the great public con-
cerning the methods of Nature in working out her laws.
I want to enlighten the public, to teach them that things
which they have hitherto felt to be complicated and
difficult to understand are simple and quite within the
comprehension of all.

The discovery is an unusual one. It involves so much
that people have a just claim to insist upon complete
conviction. They are right in demanding absolute
proof. The risk is too great to justify any one being
satisfied with a mere assertion. When anybody is sick
he does not want to experiment with himself, or to be
experimented on by others ; he wants to be cured. He
must find something that is useful, not something that
will probably prove ineffectual and which may be inju-

PLATE XL

41. DIPLOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE
(Fraenkel's).

(OF PNEUMONIA.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm, Radam.

42. PNEUMOCOCCUS (Friedlander's).

(OF PNEUMONIA.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam,

43. BACILLUS TYPHI ABDOMINALIS.

(OF TYPHOID FEVER— SHOWS FLAGELLA.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

44. BACILLUS TYPHI ABDOMINALIS.

(OF TYPHOID FEVER.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radatn.

HISTORY OP MY DISCOVERY.

81

rious. I offer to cure all diseases with but one remedy,
and to stop children dying of disease — for of course I
cannot prevent accidents — in all cases that are taken in
time and where my instructions are faithfully followed.
This is undertaking a great deal, and it would be worse
than an error on my part to make it unless I knew that
I could carry it out. I have this certainty. It is no
supposition, no theory. I have the experience and the
proof, and I wish every one to convince himself as fully
as may be necessary.

CHAPTEE IX.

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED.

No question can be of such importance to humanity
as that which deals with the cure of disease and the pre-
servation of human hfe. I now come to a more detailed
discussion of that subject, and can epitomize in a few
words the results of years of observation and patient in-
vestigation. Use the microbe-killer as a preventive and
as a cure ; read this book from the beginning to the
end, and your common sense will tell you what disease
is and what the remedy must be to cure it.

I have sufficiently explained that disease is fermenta-
tion caused by microbes. I have also shown that no
remedy has been discovered that will stop fermentation
in the human body without killing the patient, except
the microbe-killer. I have described a test that anybody
can make, which proves that the microbe-killer is an
antiseptic, and it also shows that it is harmless. Both
of these have been substantiated in open court by many
witnesses. Whoever reads this book carefully will see
at once that the microbe-killer cannot be classed with
drugs or medicine^ now in use. Medicines do not stop
fermentation, but the microbe-killer does. Any one
who is suffering from chronic disease should test his
medicines by putting a little piece of raw meat into
them. He will soon discover that it ferments, and this
demonstrates that microbes grow right in his medicines.
No further reason is needed to show why his disease
goes on and becomes chronic. If any one cannot under-
stand this fact he has need of sympathy. I am forced
to use the plainest language in order to counteract all
that scientific nonsense that has been taught to the
people for generations — that disease is a mystery and

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 83

that the remedy must necessarily be a mystery also. I
have received many letters from people suffering from
chronic disease, explaining to me that they had lost all
faith in medicines because they had tried almost every-
thing— they had consulted the best doctors, changed cli-
mates, and spent their money broadcast in useless efforts
to be cured or gain relief. Each of these letters described
the fruit of medical science.

Then, again, others come to my offices completely
drugged and filled with fermentation. These poor crea-
tures tell me that the doctors have said they could do
nothing more for them. It is almost impossible to be-
lieve that such things can be allowed to go on. I have
read and seen so much about quackery that I am dis-
gusted whenever I read those letters or listen to the
tales of woe from persons who spend all their money in
microbe foods. Not one of those who have written or
come to me have thought it necessary to ask his or her
physician the most important of all questions, *^What
is disease ? " What causes it ? What is the root of all
illness ? If these questions were asked, common sense
would suggest the answer without the use of compli-
cated medical words which are practically meaningless,
and at the same time the proper remedy would be sug-
gested.

That people did not know what disease is can be ex-
cused, because I did not know it myself. But after I
discovered and published it again and again there is no
more excuse for being unable to answer those questions
or for being afflicted with disease. If any one wants to
be humbugged, drugged, and either killed outright or
be allowed to die through ignorance, that person or his
relatives should not complain. People should demand
to know what they buy for their dollar. If a man pre-
tends to cure rheumatism, cancer, consumption, or any
other disease, ask him first what causes rheumatism,
cancer, or consumption, and if the man is honest he
must admit that those diseases are caused by microbes
which cause fermentation. Then ask him if his remedy

84 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

will stop fermentation. If you do this you get him down
to the point. If you test his medicine in the way and
manner I have described before you swallow it, you
may have learned something which had you not learned
would have resulted in an injury to your system.

Should any one dare tell you that rheumatism, cancer,
or consumption, or in fact any kind of disease, is not
caused by microbes, just tell him that I have offered
and still offer one hundred dollars for each and every
disease that can be proven not to be caused by microbes,
the reward to go to the person or persons making the
discovery. Such a man has not been found, nor will
any one ever be able to demonstrate that any of the con-
clusions I have reached in my investigations are untrue
or only partially true. I cannot blame the doctors for
doctoring the people in a medical and scientific way, nor
can I fail to understand that their business demands
that they should keep the cause and cure of disease a
secret ; but I can blame the sick who swallow every-
thing and anything, without knowing what those rem-
edies contain and what they are supposed to do, and
why they can or cannot cure them. It is remarkable
how people have been humbugged and blindfolded into
the belief that symptoms can be cured without remov-
ing the cause.

Some have used medicines to cure a cough, fever, ner-
vousness, pain, or other symptoms, without knowing
what is the cause of those symptoms. They also have
been told that their trouble is in the heart, lungs, kid-
neys, throat, or any other part of the body, and that, in
order to cure the different symptoms in a certain part
of the body so diagnosed or guessed, it is necessary to
swallow a certain medicine and send that to the very
spot diagnosed as diseased.

Now, the human body is not built like a house, full of
water pipes, with stop cocks, to lead the water to a cer-
tain compartment just where it is wanted. Whatever
we eat or drink goes into the stomach, and from there
every part of the body is nourished or cured. This

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 85

proves that we can never cure a part of the body without
curing the whole body, and as the cause of disease is but
one, we cure all if we have the right remedy. Just as
the sap circulates through every part of a plant, so does
the blood circulate in man. All disease is in the blood,
for the blood is the life. When that is pure and clean,
sickness is impossible. I have written a special article
about the blood, which will be found in another part of
this book. The photomicrographs I made of blood
obtained from sick persons show the microbes in the
blood (see Plate III.). There is not a single portion of
our body which is not reached by the blood. When the
blood is full of clots of microbes, as seen in the photo-
micrographs, trouble will be felt just where the circula-
tion is interrupted, and that spot will commence to swell,
and pain is the result. If we use the microbe- killer
externally as a poultice over the painful spot, it will
relieve and stop the pain for a time, just as many other
lotions or liniments do ; but this is no cure, as disease
will again break out. The cure can only be made in-
ternally by purifying the blood from all microbes. If a
person suffering from any skin disease, for instance,
uses the microbe-killer externally only, he will drive
away the microbes, to appear again sooner or later, and
that is the way of all remedies sold to doctor the people.
I say doctoring, for it means healing, or patching up ;
for no remedy has been discovered that will cure disease,
outside of the microbe-killer, which fact is even admit-
ted by medical scientists. That the profession has cura-
ble and incurable diseases is well known. But it is not
known by them nor has it over been explained why
some diseases disappear, and others do not but continue
until death results.

My study in the great book of Nature enables me to
explain any and all questions referring to the cause and
cure of diseases, and to shed full light on the subject.
I have described the most important questions, including
curable and incurable diseases, in a separate article in
this book.

S6 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Now, every one knows that disease has its beginning"
before it spreads and grows. If a remedy fails to stop a
disease before it develops, how can it stop it after the
whole body is full of microbes and fermentation ? The
many afflicted with chronic diseases who come to our
offices are ample proof that no remedy has been discov-
ered that will cure disease. To cure means to stop and
not allow it to progress. When a cancer has been cut
out or burned out with plasters and has reappeared
again, which is always the case, is this not ample proof
that the cancer was never cured ? And when we have
shown by overwhelming testimony that we cure cancer
after several operations have been performed, each time
cutting out the supposed cancer four or eight inches in
diameter, why should not the microbe-killer cure it in
the beginning when it is no larger than a pea ? Here is
something to think about. When consumptives with
bodies full of fermentation are cured by the use of the
microbe-killer— as has been shown in open court and i&
daily being proven all over the land— why would this
remedy not prevent a person from getting consumption
if used at the beginning ? Under such circumstances, da
I not show that the fault lies with the people alone ?

Every disease has a beginning, and if not stopped it
goes right on and develops its course. If a man intended
to paint his house with chalk or molasses or any non-
antiseptic, fermentation would never be arrested and
his house would soon rot and break down. The same
process goes on in our body. Nature puts something to
grow everywhere. If a man wants to raise potatoes he
must hoe them to keep the weeds away or the weeds will
smother his potatoes. If he wants to preserve his house,
wagon, or other structures and implements he must
paint them with an antiseptic paint, and if he wants to
cure disease, to preserve his body from an early fermen-
tation and decay, he must kill the microbes that cause it.
There is no use trying to deceive the people by using
scientific tomfoolery and volaplik language, because it
will not alter the fact that disease is fermentation and

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 87

the remedy is to stop it. The microbes are a reahty and
can be seen, although it may take a microscope. But
they are there just the same. If the people could see
microbes as they see .weeds in their gardens, they would
soon see the value of the microbe-killer and thus prevent
any disease before it could develop and kill the patient.
If the seeds of weeds fall into the garden they will sprout
and grow, and, if left unmolested, will shed seeds again,
which are finally scattered over the garden to such an
extent that many hoeings will be required to extermi-
nate them. The very same process goes on in the human
body when it is infected with microbes. They are easily
killed and the process of fermentation is soon arrested
when the microbe-killer is used at once ; but in chronic
diseases of years' standing it will take just as long to get
the microbes out of the body as it would to clear a gar-
den full of weeds, because, so long as seed is there to
sprout, the hoeing must be kept up.

Many persons have written to me that they have used
a few gallons of the microbe-killer, but gave it up be-
cause they noticed no improvement. In their letters
they state how many years they have doctored and how
sick they are now ; that they are affected with the dis-
ease all over ; that they are nervous and cannot sleep or
eat anything substantial. Now, if these persons would
compare their body, full of microbes and fermentation,
their stomach lining coated and fermented like the roots
on sick plants, and their blood filled with microbes like
water full of slime — if they would compare all this to a
crop smothered or nearly smothered with weeds, they
would have a good illustration of what is necessary and
what results may be expected from certain experiments.
Now, the microbe-killer is just as reliable in killing mi-
crobes as a hoe, in the hands of a proper person, is in kill-
ing weeds. If a gardener becomes disgusted and gives up
hoeing because he cannot get the weeds out fast enough,
for weeds always shed seed again, can he blame the hoe ?
Is he not himself to blame for allowing the weeds to
grow ?

88 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Naw, every glassful of microbe -killer kills microbes,
just as every stroke of the hoe kills weeds. I have dis-
covered how to test it. A gallon of the microbe-killer
kills a great many microbes, but x)ne hundred gallons
will kill one hundred times as many. This explains
that every gallon of microbe-killer used by the patient
has done its work, although he may not feel the benefit
until the most of the fermentation is removed and the
coatings of the stomach renevv^ed. Then a gradual im-
provement can be expected. To stop using the microbe-
killer when half -cured will have the same result as to
stop using the hoe when the ground is still full of seed
shed by weeds. Hoeing must be kept up so long as seed
is sprouting, and when all microbes in the blood are
killed the germs are still there and gradually developing
into living microbes to produce fermentation again.

To make the cure successful the patient must use the
microbe-killer until every trace of the disease is re-
moved, and by that time his blood, color, and strength
improve, and an increase of flesh will soon cause a pic-
ture of health.

Every person who testified to his cure in the Supreme
Court of New York City (extracts of their testimony ap-
pear in another chapter) proves that the microbe-kiUer
does for every one what I claim, namely, that it kills
microbes and stops fermentation in the human body.
That is all I have ever claimed that it did. Whether it
can cure a person, that is, destroy the microbes and germs
in his body, so that there are no more there, depends en-
tirely upon the patient. If he has power, substance, and,
above all, a good stomach that will enable him to eat
and build up new tissues, then he can be cured. When
a house is rotten the best paint cannot save it, but the
same paint will stop the fermentation if the house is
only partially rotted, and entirely prevent it if applied
before the rotting process begins. This refers to the mi-
crobe-killer in curing or preventing disease in the human
body. When my discovery is better understood, people
will use the rnicrobe-killer in time, that is, before they

PLATE Xir.

*^

W^i

^.^^ • >J

x*^

45. TUBERCLE BACILLI.

(in sputum.)
X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

46. TUBERCLE BACILLI.

(IN SPUTUM.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

47. TUBERCLES IN LUNG.

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

48. TUBERCLES IN KIDNEY.

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

HOW DISEASE CAIs BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 89

get sick, just as we kill weeds before they shed seed and
spread over the garden, or as we paint a house, iron
structure or implement before it rots.

Prevention is always better than cure. If people could
see their own blood filled with more or less microbes
(and there are very few who have no microbes), they
would use at least one glass a day of microbe-killer all
the year through, just to keep their blood clean. The
time will come when this will be done, and the micro-
photographs used to illustrate this book, especially of the
blood, cannot fail to set the majority of people thinking,
who in return will use it for their benefit, and as an act
of humanity they will try to drive it into the heads of
their friends who think less quickly. Just cure one
person and you have a friend who will help you cure
another. This is really the way the fame of Eadam's
Microbe-Killer is being scattered broadcast through the
world. As salt or vinegar is kept in the house to flavor
meats, so will ultimately the microbe-killer be kept in
every household as an ever ready preventive of disease.
There are now thousands of families using the microbe-
killer in large quantities to cure and keep well the whole
family. They would never be without it, for a cut, a
scratch, bruise, or burn, on their hands or body, is
healed and the pain stopped at once by a free use of the
microbe-killer. I myself would not travel one thou-
sand miles without carrying a bottle of the microbe-
killer with me, for accidents may happen or sickness of
any kind may overtake one in travelling. So I always
carry my own cure and preventive with me. I have
made up my mind that microbes shall not kill me. If I
die through an accident, then the doctors can't say that
microbes went away with me, as was said in a San
Francisco paper. I showed them afterward that I was
very much alive. A lady and her aged mother have
both used a great deal of the microbe-killer, and when
they made a flying trip to Europe recently took;, along
two jugs of the microbe-killer to guard against seasick-
ness. I instructed them to drink it very freely, espe-

90 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

cially should the first symptoms of seasickness appear.
The result was that neither was sick, and they were the
only ones who never missed a meal. A lady who had
used the microbe-killer in New York wrote to me from
Europe that she had never passed so pleasant a trip
across the ocean as the last time when she used the mi-
crobe-killer. Previous voyages had been so disagreeable
that she was compelled to keep her berth from the be-
ginning to the end. It is the purification of the blood
and the removal of fermentation from the stomach sev-
eral weeks before making a voyage that prevents sea-
sickness. It is the sick who suffer most from seasick-
ness. Healthy persons are rarely affected with it.

What the microbe-killer cannot cure, if taken in time,
I am unable to say. I cannot see the end. It can only
be reached by experience. I claimed at first that I had
discovered the cause and cure of all diseases in man . This
I have already proven by the cures. But as we have
cured horses, cows, chickens, canary birds, and other
animals by the same microbe-killer applied in the same
manner, I am entitled to claim more. Discoverers gene-
rally claim more than they can prove. My discovery is
different. Whoever has read this book carefully will
readily understand that whatever cures man must natu-
rally cure animals, for their diseases are caused by the
same process— microbes, which produce fermentation.
To reach satisfactory results in curing both, we must
use a certain quantity of the microbe-killer, according to
the bulk to be preserved. When a tumblerful of the
microbe-killer is required to saturate the system of a
man, a quart will be required to saturate the body of a
horse. A quart of microbe-killer will cure any form of
colic in a horse within from fifteen to thirty minutes,
whereas if the horse suffer from a disea(Se of long stand-
ing many gallons will be required to cure him.

A rule which applies to the cure of man and animal is
that if a disease develops and kills quickly, the microbe-
killer must be used without delay. It must also be ad-
ministered in large doses and at short intervals, so that

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 91

the whole system at once becomes saturated with the
gas. As soon as pain ceases the microbes are subdued
from further propagation and the disease is arrested.
Smaller doses taken at intervals of one or two hours for
some time longer will complete the cure. Should the
patient be unable to swallow so much microbe-killer, ex-
ternal applications over the painful or swollen parts
will aid in effecting a cure. This applies especially to
the cure of cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, pneumonia,
galloping consumption, small-pox, typhoid fever, blood-
poisoning, hydrophobia, scarlet fever, or any other quick-
developing disease. The improvement in such cases
will be noticed almost at once, whereas in slow- devel-
oping or chronic diseases the improvements are slow or
sometimes very much retarded, according to the nature
of the disease. In diseases of long standing we must
use the microbe-killer in smaller doses— about one wine-
glassful from four to six times a day, according to the
strength of the patient. Trying to hurry a cure in such
cases would make the patient too weak, because he cannot
build up fast enough. As the microbes are living, they
can be felt shifting around when attacked by large doses
of the microbe-killer. The microbe-killer never produces
sickness, as some people may think. It is the disease
that produces the effect when attacked by it.

Any smarting felt after using the microbe-killer in-
dicates death to microbes. It proves the remedy is doing
its work. When all the microbes are killed and the dis-
ease is cured, there will be no more smarting or disagree-
able feeling, no matter how much of the microbe- killer
is taken.

The above explains that people should never complain
to us about the bad feeling caused by killing the microbes
which they have so dearly and scientifically nursed be-
fore by medicines which did not stop fermentation, hence
could not kill them.

Eemedies which do not kill microbes do not produce
any effect. Another point I may mention right here is
that to cure disease all fermentation in the human body

92 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

must come out, and the microbe-killer brings it out.
When fermentation has been stopped, improvement will
then progress more rapidly. Other medicines feed the
microbes and leave them in the system, but the- microbe-
killer destroys them and brings them out.

It will be seen by this that the action of the microbe-
killer is just the opposite of that produced by medicines.
Hence it should never be classed as an ordinary medi-
cine, or, in fact, as a medicine at all. It is a new dis-
covery altogether. If doctors want to test the microbe-
killer, to see for themselves if it will do what I claim,
they should select cases which are quickly fatal, such as
cholera, diphtheria, small-pox, or any other disease in
the first stages, and never in the last stages of consump-
tion, cancer, leprosy, or wherever the cure may take a
whole year. If the microbe-killer would fail to stop a
disease at its beginning, when properly applied and used,
it would indicate that it never could cure afterward.
Nobody will ev^r expect from a painter the experiment
of trying his paint upon a house that is rotten. How
could any one expect to settle the value of the microbe-
killer on a patient given up by doctors to die ? There is
no sense in such a test. The patients thus treated will
either die before the microbes are removed, or it will
take a long time to cure the patient. As I said before,
the microbe-killer does one thing — it kills the microbes,
which no other medicine can do, and at the same time it
is so harmless that even the eyes of a baby could not be
destroyed.

The cure of a patient depends upon how much fer-
mentation is in his body and how much good there is
left. It is useless for patients to write to me or to the
microbe-killer companies for further advice as to whether
the microbe-killer will cure a certain disease that has
become chronic, or the describing of that disease by a
long array of symptoms. We cannot answer, because
we do not know and do not care to guess. The patient
must find this out for himself. What disease is, and
what the microbe -killer does, I have fully explained in

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 93

this article, and it should relieve us from further corre-
spondence upon the subject.

When a young child is sick, no matter what the age
be, no time should be lost, but the progress of the disease
should be checked immediately with microbe-killer.
For the medicine may be used with perfect safety to the
youngest child, even to one only a few hours old. It
cleanses the blood, prevents fermentation, and is bene-
ficial in all diseases to which children are subject. I
have had considerable experience with children, and
have found that when the microbe-killer is used regularly
children seldom have trouble of any kind, thus proving
that it acts as a preventive as well as a cure. This
might be expected, because by the habitual use the sys-
tem is kept in good order and microbes are destroyed
as fast as they appear. Children are fond of it. The
flavor is agreeable, and they take it readily ; and, when
they are allowed to do so regularly, their skins become
perfectly clear and healthy. The capillary circulation
becomes normal, the little ones have rosy cheeks, and
not a pimple or spot upon their bodies.

We can preserve wood and stone from fungi ; it is
natural, therefore, that we should preserve the body, as
my medicine proves that we can. It only needs to be
known to every family as it is to me, and children will
no longer be down with measles, scarlet fever, or any of
the other troubles of childhood. They will take the mi-
crobe-killer freely in time, when the very first symptoms
appear, and they will hear no more of such epidemics.
In fact, even if the medicine is not used habitually, it
should be taken whenever any disease is prevalent, and
it will protect the person from an attack.

It may be thought that by constant use its effects will
be lost, but it is not so. Some medicines, especially
many aperients and cathartics, do act in that way.
They produce an immediate action on the bowels, and a
torpidity follows, just as the action of some medicines is
cumulative, like arsenic. So no effect may be produced

OJ: MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

at first, and then when a sufficient amount is in the sys:
tern poisonous symptoms supervene.

But the microbe-killer is a tonic. It never loses its
power of killing micro-organisms, and is more effective
the longer it is persevered with ; and it acts constantly,
strengthening the system, purifying the blood, and sup-
plying food to the blood and tissues that Nature demands.
It may therefore be used safely and advantageously at
all times, and it is essential when contagious diseases are
prevalent, no matter what names be given to them,
whether typhoid or scarlet fever, small-pox, cholera, in-
fluenza, or what not. If your child has already been in
the doctor's hands, and even if he has given it up, take
my advice, give up his noxious drugs and poisonous medi-
cines, and avail yourself of my discovery.

A gentleman in Dallas, Texas, wrote me and said :
" Mr. Radam, your microbe-killer cured our baby, and I
€an hardly find words to express my gratitude. We ex-
pected it would die. The doctor told us he had done all
he could, and advised us to give it no more medicine.
He gave up all hope, and left. He had no sooner done so
than the wife of one of our neighbors came in and told
us of your microbe-killer. We read your circular, and,
feeling that the child would die, we determined to try it.
We warmed the medicine slightly, then wrapped the
child in flannels and poured the microbe-killer all over
the body. We also used a little as an injection, mixed
with starch, and gave the child three teaspoonfuls in-
ternally. Then the child was wrapped in warm, dry
flannels, and, to our surprise, in half an hour it was
asleep, and not asleep only, but it slept quietly till early
morning, and then awoke laughing and free from pain.
It nursed freely, and the milk was not rejected by the
stomach. We continued the medicine ; the child con-
tinued to improve, and is now living."

For aught I know to the contrary it still lives. The
case is instructive, for if the father had been content
with merely administering the microbe-killer internally,
I doubt if he would have cured the child. Its illness had

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 95

advanced too far, and it was necessary to use the medi-
cine externally, as well as internally, to attack the mi-
crobes wherever they could be reached. The case shows
also that we may be able to rescue a patient, even from
the edge of the grave, if we go the right way to do it,
and if we are able to act with an understanding of Na-
ture's laws and methods, so that we may see the import-
ance of using the medicine in such a way as to permeate
all the tissues, and thus, as it were, soak the body, as I
have before explained.

The microbe-killer contains no drugs of an organic
character. It is simply a solution of gases, which pass
readily through the tissues, much as the perspiration
passes through the pores of the skin, and thus they get
into the blood and circulate throughout the system. It
will be seen, therefore, how important it is to thor-
oughly carry the remedy everywhere, to leave no part
of the body free to enable the microbes to increase ; and
the facility with which this medicine passes thus into
every tissue and to the remotest parts by means of the
<3apillary vessels adds very much to its great value.

In serious diseases which run their course quickly,
and in the treatment of which prompt action is import-
ant, such as typhoid and scarlet fever, measles, small-
pox, and the like, external applications are also neces-
sary and important. The skin absorbs the active princi-
ple of the medicine almost as freely and as quickly as,
sometimes even more quickly than, the absorption
through the stomach, and its effects must in such dis-
eases be obtained as rapidly as possible. But in ordinary
diseases, especially where treatment can be begun with-
out delay, internal dosing in sufficient quantities will
effect a cure, and, as already stated, it acts as a preven-
tive when taken during health.

Some*doctors have asserted that the microbe -killer
contains poisonous drugs. It is a bare assertion, made
in complete ignorance of what it really is ; but the folly
of such statements is apparent on its face, for if such
were the case how could it be administered in large

96 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER.

doses to ehildren without injuring them ? As a matter
of fact, it contains, as I have said, no drug at all. If it
were what these doctors say, it would soon kill itself
No poisonous medicine such as they describe would be
allowed to exist. The people would soon find it out and
they would not have it. The microbe-killer is harmless,
and that it cures all who use it according to directions is
an assertion that proves itself.

When a child is taken sick, no matter what the sick-
ness may be or what name the doctor chooses to apply
to it, remember what I said at the beginning of this
book. The disease is caused by a microbe, possibly a
special microbe, and your duty then is to use the .medi-
cine immediately, as long as necessary and as freely as
possible, until the child is cured, as it most assuredly
will be. Young children require less than adults, and I
have found that small people can do with less than lar-
ger ones, as might be anticipated from the method by
which the medicine is known to operate. It is not
necessary, for example, to use as much to secure a com-
plete saturation of the tissues in a small body as in a
large one. For very small children two teaspoonfuls
will usually suffice for a dose, and this may be repeated
as often as is necessary, but every four hours is about
the frequency that I find to answer. The size, age, and
temperament of the patient all have to be considered.
In the treatment of wounds, ulcers, boils, or local in-
flammations, poultices saturated with the microbe-
killer should be kept constantly applied to the surface,
and the internal treatment should be attended to at the
same time. But it must not be forgotten that whenever
employed externally it should also be used internally at
the same time. This is necessary. Taken internally it
purifies the blood, and when used externally some may
become absorbed ; but its chief value then is to relieve
pain and to prevent the increase of microbes on the in-
jured surface. A wound left exposed or improperly at-
tended to becomes a nidus for microbes, sometimes in
the simplest form, as micrococci or as bacteria or ba-

PLATE XIII.

50.

x50.

DISEASED HUMAN LUNG.

Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

62.

x50.

WALL OF TUBERCLE CAVITY.

Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 97

cilli, but the result is the same whether they be in the
form of simple cells or as tubular or spiral bodies (see
Plate IV.).

The process of fermentation has always been known,
at any rate so far as history carries us, and it is under-
stood among savages, but it was only about twelve hun-
dred years ago that it was identified with putrefaction.
The air containing micro-organisms in large quantities,
if these fall upon a wound or an ulcer there will be some
which will find it a suitable place for reproduction, and
then fermentation, inflammation, suppuration, and pos-
sibly gangrene may be the consequence. But if this be
stopped, as it may be by the prompt application of the
microbe-killer, the wound heals, the process of Nature
being uninterrupted, and none of those dangerous results
ensue. The rationale of this must be clear.

It is my firm conviction, taught me by experience, that
if a child dies it is from some cause that might be pre-
vented. I do not refer to children who inherit disease
from parents to such a degree that their lives are for-
feited as soon as they are born, but to all ordinary cases
of disease. For example, the remedy may be applied too
late, or in insufficient doses, or in a manner contrary to
directions, or it may have been given irregularly or not
continued long enough. When death occurs in such
circumstances it is the fault of the nurse, not of the
medicine.

Nothing is easier than to cure children, if action be
prompt and effective. They are easily affected by dis-
ease, but so, too, their system readily yields to medicine,
and with competent attention rules are more easily car-
ried out.

It is much more difficult to cure chronic disease,
whether it be of years' or only of months' duration.
And, to return to my former similes, the florist finds it
in truth more difficult to attend to his seedlings and to
protect them from fungus than it is to defend children
from the attacks of microbes, of which most doctors
know nothing.
7

fc

08 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

When a plant has become matured and the wood is
hardened, it can withstand more rough usage ; and so it
is with the human family. Statistics show that there is
a greater mortality among children than among grown
people. A child cannot describe its symptoms ; it merely
cries with pain and discomfort. Then comes the doctor,
who guesses what kind of microbe has got hold of it, and
in accordance with his theories he puts up a lot of drugs
which are probably no antiseptics at all. They do not
affect the microbes, which go on producing a state of
fermentation in the child's body, and are possibly encou-
raged rather than otherwise by the medicines that have
been administered. In this case the child grows worse,
the doctor gives it up, and presently it dies. The doctor
did all he knew, but he was ignorant of the true cause
of the sickness, and more likely hastened the child's
decease instead of doing anything to prevent it.

The treatment of older children and young people is
similar to that of young children, only it requires longer
time usually and more of the medicine to perfect a satu-
ration of the body. It also usually requires more time
to complete a purification of the blood. Chronic diseases
require still longer time and more medicine. They are
long coming, and they go slowly. In them the process
of fermentation probably began years before the disease
made itself felt. Then the microbes have probably ad-
vanced to such an extent that the circulation of the blood
is impeded, the microbes clogging up the vessels, causing
pain, and not until then, perhaps, does the person com-
plain of being sick. Even these diseases can be cured by
the microbe-killer if it be taken with enough persever-
ance, so that not only the microbes are destroyed, but
the red corpuscles of the blood are renovated, the circu-
lation is freed, and the red color of the skin is re-
stored through a complete action of the capillary vessels.
Young women about arriving at maturity should use the
medicine freely. It purifies the blood and increases the
tone of the system, arousing the circulation, so that they
would not feel the change. In the same way it is useful

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 99

to women looking forward to maternity. It is beneficial
to the child, keeping the blood in a strong and healthy
condition, and assisting the mother both before and dur-
ing confinement. It also tends to facilitate the flow of
milk and to render it more nutritive to the child.

Where there is any sickness there is some blood im-
purity— that is, microbes are at work, and fermentation
to a greater or less extent is going on, and the microbe-
killer is the only discovery yet made which directs itself
immediately to the cause of the disease.

Ladies can find ample testimony from those of their
own sex as to the value of my medicine to themselves.
There is much to discover and much yet to learn, and
it is not my wish to keep back anything that has been
ascertained by me since I made my first cures. I must
therefore touch upon this more fully.

The discharges attending menstruation, when exam-
ined under a powerful microscope, show blood containing
vast quantities of microbes. Investigations made among
many patients always show that the darkest blood is a
mass of living micro-organisms, and that when women
complain most of pain in the back, headache, neuralgia,
etc., they are suffering from these enormous quantities
of microbes. When women thus affected have taken
the microbe-killer for several months, the character of
the discharges changes. It becomes red, and when ex-
amined it is found to be free from microbes ; the woman
at the same time suffers no more. The headache and
pain in the back have left her, the periods are more nor-
mal and free from inconvenience, and the patient puts
on a healthy appearance. Her eyes are bright, and her
complexion is clear, and she has more energy.

My first discoveries of this kind showed the nature
and cause of woman's sufferings at these times, and that
it is Nature again acting on her own laws, the pain and
inconveniences being caused by a process of fermenta-
tion as usual, and the pain ceasing when the cause of
that process is removed.

But such cases are not cured right away. It is absurd

100 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

to suppose that they can be, and it would be wrong for
me to say that they can. The blood must be purified,
and, as the microbes must be killed, the remedy must be
one that accomplishes this object and thereby puts a
stop to fermentation. At the same time no antiseptic
can take effect until it has entered the cells by passing
through their walls, and so can be brought into contact
with their contents. This explains how persons are de-
ceived by those medicines which are given to purify the
blood, and which have no power whatever to destroy
the causes which render impurity possible. Medicines
which have no effect upon the life of micro-organisms
cannot purify the blood, and none of the medicines used
for the purpose do accomplish that end. We must
have something that kills microbes, and hence the value
and necessity of my discovery, for, as I have shown,
there is nothing else that does that without also killing
the patient.

Any one who advertises or claims to be able to purify
the blood should prove that he does so, and, if he will al-
low his medicine to be fairly tested, it is quite easy to
ascertain whether it will do all that is promised for it,
because if it cannot prevent fermentation it certainly
cannot do what is promised for it ; and if it will do that
it can cure disease everywhere, whether in man or other
animals. If anybody doubts this or fails to understand
it, I have tangible, visible evidence that I can produce,
but I hardly think that the people generally will fail to
find ample proof in the cures I have already effected.
These should alone be convincing, even though my med-^
icine is the same for all, and I myself, in place of being
a professor with a long name, am nothing more than a
close observer of Nature.

This is certain, that Nature cannot be denied. What-
ever she teaches is beyond contradiction at the hands of
the doctors, and medical science, if there be any science
in medicine, is not in a position to oppose it. But I do
not see the science. I know the profession is wrong, em-
phatically wrong, and my only wonder is how people can

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 101

allow themselves to be misled by it. Let me not be mis-
understood. I do not say that there are not some good
and useful medicines. But those, for instance, which
are useful to regulate the bowels cannot be called blood
purifiers. Even those act in different ways — some in-
fluencing the functions of the liver and other organs.
But none of these actions implies a purification of the
blood. There are probably thousands of medicines sold
as blood purifiers. Some of them, through being kept
constantly before the people, are popular, and occasion-
ally they may do some good, or, if they do not, people
think they do. They are announced as being free from
mineral compounds, and the medicine man declares they
are made exclusively from herbs, roots, barks, seeds, and
so on. Now, the fact is that those things would ferment
and they would promote fermentation in the blood, and
to prevent that the manufacturer of the compound uses
alcohol or whiskey as a preservative. If he did not do
that the stuff would breed microbes in the bottle in
which it is sold.

Any one can prove this for himself by taking some of
the vegetable compounds and diluting them with water,
or making an infusion of the roots or herbs ; add to them
any of the fluids or excretions of the body — add the fer-
ment with the medicine — and keep the mixture closed in a
bottle. In a short time you will see whether or not the
medicine has prevented fermentation. You need not be
an expert with the microscope. You will see the pro-
cess going on rapidly. If, then, the medicine that you
are asked to take increases fermentation, how in the
world is it going to cure you ? This experiment you can
pursue with any of the nostrums that are offered to the
public and which are prescribed, and you can learn for
yourself, without swallowing them, whether they are
likely to accomplish what is promised for them. Or you
may take a piece of lean meat, place it in a bottle with
any of the popular medicines, and see whether they pre-
vent fermentation and the formation of microbes.

This, however, must be remembered : Suppose that

102 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

any particular remedy stands the test. In order that it
shall be efficient as a medicine it must be of such a na-
ture that it can be taken like water, so as to saturate the
body, permeating all the tissues. A small quantity
taken into the stomach is of no use. You may take
strong alcohol and it will stand the test, but can you
saturate your body with it ? You may, indeed, go on
experimenting until you have covered all the drugs
known to the doctors, and still you will not find one
that will effectually kill microbes without also killing
the patient.

Many things will give relief. Chloroform, morphine,
mercury, and numberless drugs will, on occasion, do
that : but relief is not cure. Many persons have told me
— some personally, others by letter — that years ago they
had some form of disease ; that they went possibly to
some celebrated doctor and got well ; then, sometimes
later, they had another attack of the same disease, and
again they got well under some physician's care ; and
now they have it again. The truth is, these people
never were cured. They were simply relieved either by
a partial suppression of the microbes or by driving them
to other parts of the body

Persons have often come to me who had suffered from
cancer. They showed me where it had been removed by
the knife or checked by plasters. At the time they had
thought themselves cured, but now evidences of cancer
were appearing in various parts of their bodies, and it
was more severe than it had been at first. Cutting
away portions of the human body that are diseased in
that way is evidence of the grossest ignorance. If a
person have cancer of the tongue a removal of that
organ will not cure him. If he have cancer in the
throat the removal of a portion will not cure him. The
amputation of a leper's limbs would not remove the
leprosy. Whereas, if we can purify the blood, there is
no occasion even to think of the knife, and this refers to
almost any kind of surgical operation.

They say that exceptions prove the rule, and I will

HOW DISEASE CAN BE CURED AND LIFE PRESERVED. 103

name one. There are cases where, from some cause or
other, mortification supervenes on an injury. As soon
as that process stops, of which Nature gives unmistak-
able signs, then the diseased portion may be safely and
rightly removed ; for, if it be not taken away, and
assuming the patient's health to continue good. Nature
herself would remove it, but the process would be slow
and the stump would be unsatisfactory.

If I had a compound fracture of one of my limbs, I
should be content to keep the parts in place, keep the
wound saturated with microbe-killer and use it freely
internally, and I should have no fear for the results.
Microbes would be prevented interfering with Nature,
and I know that everything then would progress satis-
factorily.

Persons whose bodies are mutilated usually die from
inflammation — that means fermentation, which again
means microbes. But if the microbe-killer be used
intelligently no microbes can exist, no fermentation can
take place, and consequently there can be no inflamma-
tion.

We shall always require surgeons. That is certain.
There are numberless forms of accident and injury
where their assistance will be necessary ; but in all their
work the microbe-killer must fill an important place,
since it stops fermentation and what the doctors call
blood-poisoning, which is simply blood filled with mi-
crobes. When the value of my discovery is fully under-
stood there will be but little use for surgical instruments.
We may take any diseased growth on the human body ;
call it lupus, or cancer, or a tumor, or what you will,
there was a time when it had a begianing. In the
future, when such things are first observed, the microbe-
killer will be used immediately, and thus the growth
will be stopped and no trouble will ensue.

During the short time that I have been using the
medicine I have seen many cases of cancer, ulcerated
sores, abscesses, etc., etc., all of which have been cured
by a free use of the medicine. Not, recollect, by small

104 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

doses, but by sufficient quantities taken regularly and
perseveringly.

If we remove a limb from a tree, and at once stop
the cut surface and protect it from the atmosphere so
that no fungus shall be deposited on it, the heart wood
will not suffer, and the tree will soon protect the part
itself by the bark growing over it. But if the exposed
section be not protected the surface will soon become
black from fungoid growths, and these will at times
extend throughout the tree, of course shortening its life.
The same process goes on in the human body. A person
may be ever so healthy, but if he lose a limb or become
wounded, and microbes are allowed to form and enter
into the blood, his life may be shortened or even lost.
On the other hand, if he can prevent fermentation alto-
gether, the parts must quickly heal, and no further
injury will be done to the system.

Antiseptic plasters, so-called, cannot be of any use.
They cannot do any good in surgical operations. They
cannot be used internally, and consequently they cannot
reach the general circulatory system. There must be
some internal remedy as well, and something that can
be used so freely that it may saturate all the tissues and
thoroughly, as it were, soak the body. Most surgical
work must cease. The removal of limbs for leprosy
must be stopped. All cutting around the eyes, face, and
limbs is unnecessary. Every case can be cured through
purification of the blood by means of the microbe-killer.

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CHAPTER X.

THE BLOOD.

Purgatives, laxatives, and even tonics are generally
prescribed or advertised to purify the blood. But what
the impurities are which the blood contains physicians
and advertisers do not explain. The patient is simply
-expected to take his medicine regardless of consequen-
ces, without having it proved to him that the particular
medicine does purify. Has not the patient a right to
know by what process the blood is expected to be pu-
rified ?

If medicine men would take the trouble to examine a
drop of bloody taken from a sick person, under a micro-
scope of high power, they would see at once groups of
microbes and germs of different shapes and colors
hetween the discs or corpuscles. The photomicrographs
I have made of the blood obtained from sick persons
clearly demonstrate this fact (see Plate III., Nos. 10,
11, 12). This proves that a blood -purifying medicine
must kill the microbes which cause the fermentation in
the blood.

If we test the antiseptic power of alleged blood puri-
fiers by placing a little raw meat into them, it will be
seen that they do not stop fermentation. This demon-
strates that microbes will grow right in these medicines,
hence the medicines can never purify the blood, as to
purify the blood the fermentation must be stopped.
Purgatives and laxatives are excellent for the bowels
under certain conditions, and tonics to assist in building
up the system ; but they have nothing to do with puri-
fying the blood. A remedy that purifies the blood cures
all forms of disease, for disease is in the blood only, and
when that is clean, sickness is impossible. Considering

106 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

these facts, a proper test made with all the alleged blood
purifiers proves that they are valueless. The only blood
purifier yet discovered that fulfils all the requirements
of an antiseptic is Radam's Microbe-Killer, which is
harmless to the patient. This claim has been substan-
tiated in court and by the overwhelming testimony of
people cured of all forms of disease by its use. It is all
nonsense to prescribe iron and nerve food for the blood
filled with microbes. Such a course shows ignorance of
Nature and disease. They will have the same effect upon
the sick that guano has upon a crop that is full of weeds.
Get the microbes, which are the cause of all forms of
disease, out of the blood, and your daily food will furnish
all the elements necessary to make pure blood, flesh, and
color. There are thousands of men selling or prescribing
medicine who know absolutely nothing about what
disease is or what causes it ; if they did, the remedy
would suggest itself.

Although a person sees the results of fermentation
running from his nose, an abscess, a wound or sore, and
expectoration, still it does not occur to him to ask for the
cause of it ; but he tries to get the symptoms cured in a
medical, scientific way that he cannot understand, till he
can bear up no longer or till his medical adviser admits
he can do no more. At the last moment, then, he
comes for Radam's Microbe-Killer, thinking that this
remedy will work miracles, and if the miracle does not
come immediately he blames the microbe-killer. The
patient has himself to blame for not killing the microbes
in time, just as the gardener has to bear the responsibil-
ity and loss for not killing the weeds that smothered his
crop.

How small microbes are can be best illustrated thus :
A microbe is many times smaller than a blood corpuscle.
A single drop of blood contains about 200,000 discs or
corpuscles. Consequently a drop of blood taken from
a sick person may easily contain 1,000,000 microbes.
When a drop of blood is spread over a cover glass, it will
form a circle three-fourths of an inch in diameter. The

THE BLOOD. lOT

diameter of the lenses in high-pdwer objectives as used
by me in my experiments is no greater than the diameter
of a pin, still they magnify a clear field of eight inches.
To bring the entire drop gradually under the lens requires
at least one hundred movements. This will actually
magnify a single drop of blood to a field eight inches
wide and five hundred feet long.

The blood from an average healthy person shows very
few microbes and white blood discs. The corpuscles are
circular in form and scarlet in color. With the highest
power objectives we are able to magnify the blood cor.
puscles to the size of a five-cent piece. If the light be
good the movement of the blood can be seen through the
glass, the surface undulating like the waves of the ocean.
The blood of a sickly person has less red corpuscles, thes^
being irregular in form and serrated or star-shaped. The
white corpuscles are diseased and full of germs, which
develop into microbes and resemble a collection of fine
seed. Microbes in the blood generally grow in clusters
or groups having different shapes and colors. As a rule,
the more unhealthy a person becomes the greater the
number of microbes and white blood corpuscles we find,
which accounts for the pale color of the patient. Groups,
of microbes cause an interruption in the proper circula-
tion of the blood through the blood vessels, which pro>
duces symptoms called by the medical profession heart
disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, inflammations, etc. The
symptoms may vary greatly ; but the cause is always
the same — namely, microbes in the blood. The heart is
not at fault ; the trouble is in the blood that passes
through it.

In my former business as a nurseryman and florist, I
made a special study and examined the sap of plants
and trees which I intended to use for budding or propa-
gation. I found that the sap of a green, healthy-look-
ing tree or plant is clear white or a yellowish white in
color, while in a sickly, yellowish-looking tree or plant
it is discolored, almost brown, sometimes black. And
this discoloration can be distinguished even in the some-

108 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

what healthier parts, because the sap is distributed from
the root to the extremity of the tree or plant, and, of
course, the bacteria are carried with it. To cut the
most diseased part from the tree does not cure it. The
natural processes going on in plants are the same as
those going on in man. To cut the diseased part from
the human body does not cure it, because the disease
is in the blood which circulates through the system.
Hence no surgical instruments should be used for the
purpose of curing a disease, for it will still go on and
eventually reappear in a more dreadful form in the
same or other parts of the body. Anatomical surgery
in case of accident, has nothing to do with curing dis-
ease. For such purpose we shall always i^eed surgeons
who are well posted about the anatomy of the human
frame. When such operations are necessary the mi-
crobe-killer should always- be used to saturate both the
body and wound, to prevent the inflammation and fer-
mentation caused by the action of microbes, and a
healthy healing will be the result. The success of bud-
ding or grafting a tree or plant upon another does not
depend upon how the cut is made, how sharp the knife,
or how the graft is transferred, but upon how to prevent
the process of fermentation from entering the wound.
By keeping the air and moisture, that promote fermen-
tation, from entering the sap through the cut, the scion
or bud will always grow. If, however, the tree to be
grafted is already sick, the operation will be a failure in
spite of all the care that may be exercised. The very
same results are to be observed in surgical operations
performed on the human body. The successful healing
of a wound does not depend upon the sharpness of the
knife or skilfulness of the operator, but entirely upon
how to prevent the microbes (which induce fermenta-
tion) from entering the blood through the wound. If
the person to be operated upon is already sick, if his
blood is filled with microbes, the operation will not be
successful. By a free use of Eadam's Microbe-Killer in
case of accident, no healthy person need fear death.

THE BLOOD. 100

When different organs of the human body are cut off,
replaced, or shaped with the knife to beautify them, as
we do plants and trees, the microbe-killer will always
insure success, as it will not allow fermentation to go
on. We have a case on record where an old, well-
known gentleman was shot four times through his body
and lungs ; but as his blood had been purified by his
having taken seven gallons of microbe-killer shortly be-
fore the accident occurred, no inflammation or fermen-
tation took place. The wounds began to heal immedi-
ately, and microbe-killer saved his life. It is simply a
question of time when Eadam's Microbe-Killer will be
used in every household to cure and prevent disease. It
will be used on the battlefield to save human life. More
men die from the inflammation and fermentation that
generally arise after being wounded than from the bul-
let itself. As the microbe-killer is such a powerful anti-
septic, and yet so harmless that the body and wound
can be saturated with it for any length of time, microbes
cannot develop, hence no inflammation or fermenta-
tion can take place, and the wound is bound to heal.
Doubtless all this may be new to many, nevertheless it
is proven every day and can easily be demonstrated.
Thousands have seen the microbes in their own blood,
under the microscope in Mr. Radam's office, before they
used the microbe-killer, and they have seen it again
after being cured by it, and know the result.

CHAPTER XI.

THE STOMACH.

What the roots are to the plant the stomach is to the
human body. The roots are the foundation of plants,
and the stomach is the foundation of man. When
plants get sick they lose their healthy green color and
the roots commence to ferment. When man gets sick
he, too, loses his healthy color, and fermentation goes
on in his foundation — the stomach. This fermentation
in the stomach produces acid and gas, which irritate the
delicate linings and cause the stomach to reject food
entirely or pass it on before it has been properly acted
upon by the natural fluids of the stomach.

To cure plants we have first to remove fermentation
from the roots. Then new rootlets will be formed, and
gradually the plant assumes its former green color. In
the same way man must be cured through the stomach.
When that organ is free from fermentation, acid and
gas will no longer be given off. Then the delicate lin-
ings become renewed, appetite increases or returns, and
the stomach again digests the food that produces flesh,
blood, and color.

If we examine the tips of white roots under a high-
power magnifying glass, little, hollow tubes will be de-
tected which act as suckers in taking up the water and
food upon which the plant lives. The linings of the
stomach, when examined the same way, also show hol-
low tubes which suck up the food and water to nourish
the whole body. Fermentation on the roots of plants or
in the stomach of man must naturally affect the whole
system of plant or man. This demonstrates that if we
attempt to cure man of disease the remedy must al-

THE STOMACH. Ill

ways go into the stomach, and from there, through as-
similation, to other parts of the body.

When plants need water and food we put them on the
roots or in the soil near the roots, so that they may be
taken up by the suckers into the sap which circulates
into every part of the plant. The surplus evaporates
through the bark or leaves. Practically the same pro-
cess takes place in man. The food he eats and the water
he drinks goes into the stomach. There it is digested, or
prepared for further digestion in the alimentary canal,
and separated. What is fit to nourish the body goes
into the blood, and the surplus passes away in perspi-
ration or into the alimentary canal. Any attempt to
€ure a certain part of a tree or plant or the human body
will be a failure if not treated through the foundation.
It shows ignorance of how plants and the human body
grow, how they get sick, and how they may be cured.
The study that I have made upon plant life I have sim-
ply turned over to a study of mankind. There is not a
particle of difference between the two, so far as the cause
and cure of disease are concerned.

To claim that this or that kind of food is healthy and
the other is not does not prove anything. What is sick-
ness and what is health ? The healthf ulness of any kind
of food depends upon whether the stomach of the person
who eats it is healthy or not. The intelligent florist
knows too well that fertilizers put on the roots of yel-
low-looking, sickly plants with their rotten roots grow-
ing in hard, water-soaked ground, can never cure them ;
and cod-liver oil, nerve food tonics, and the like can
never cure a man whose stomach is full of fermentation.

By testing the antiseptic power of all medicine it
will be found that Eadam's Microbe-Killer is the only an-
tiseptic yet discovered that will absolutely stop fermen-
tation in the human body without killing the patient.
This is the reason why it cures all diseases. To cure
disease two factors are absolutely necessary. First, the
remedy must be an antiseptic ; it must stand the test of
stopping fermentation before it is introduced into the

112 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

body. And, second, it must be perfectly harmless, so
that it can be used in large doses, like water, to soak
the whole system continually for any length of time.
Then fermentation is bound to cease, and during all
this time the stomach of the patient becomes gradually
renewed, appetite returns, and blood, color, and flesh
will form again.

To keep the roots warm and tops cool, plenty of fresh
air, sunshine, warmth, and moisture is essential for the
growth of plants. The same can be said of man. Keep
the feet warm and the head cool, get plenty of fresh air,
sunshine, healthy food, and sufficient exercise to keep
the blood in circulation.

The man who works, walks, runs, or exercises gene-
rally, keeps healthy and has a good appetite, providing
he has health to begin with. But the man who sits
still, takes little or no exercise, but eats almost as much
as the man who exercises, and drinks in the same pro-
portion, soon gets sick and loses his appetite. The
faster we walk or exercise the more air we breathe.
The inflation of the lungs causes a constant movement
of the stomach. This corresponds to the action of the
suckers in plants, acting as scissors to cut and grind the
food taken in.

A glance at the photograph, which is a transverse sec-
tion of the stomach (see Plate V.), will explain that
when the stomach is full of food every breath causes the
lobes to grind against the food. The more we exercise
the sooner and better the food is digested. It is thus
that we feel hungry much sooner after exercising than
when we do not exercise. During sleep we breathe
slowly, hence hunger is not so noticeable then. In the
healthy stomach the food is digested or prepared for
further digestion before it gets time to ferment, but in a
stomach which is not healthy it ferments because the
process of digestion is much delayed.

Florists know that to raise perfect flowers and
healthy, green-looking plants they must encourage the
roots, feed them well, and keep them healthy. The top

PLATE XV.

57. COMMA BACILLUS.

(IN ASIATIC CHOLERA.)

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58. COMMA BACILLUS.

(in ASIATIC CHOLERA.)

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69. SPIRILLUM CHOLERJi) ASFATICiE.

(in ASIATIC CHOLERA.)

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60. SPIRILLUM CHOLER.E ASIATICJE.

(in ASIATIC CHOLERA.)

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THE STOMACH. 113

growth of a plant needs little attention besides fresh air,
sunshine, and favorable temperature.

The thoughtful reader will find in this article proof
enough that the remedy employed to cure disease must
go through the stomach, the foundation, and from there
disease in any part of the body can be reached.

The all-important question, which has never been
answered by the medical profession, is: What is dis-
ease ? What is the cause of it ? Diagnosing symptoms,
giving them names, and guessing what part of the body
is most affected, has nothing to do with the cure.

I have fully shown to the scientific world that disease
is fermentation, and common sense must readily suggest
to every one that the remedy for fermentation or decay
is to stop it — take away that which causes it. To do
this we must use antiseptics which prove on proper tests
that they are antiseptics. To call this or that kind of
medicine an antiseptic does not prove it. We want to
have a test for it. The antiseptic power of a medicine
can be easily tested. Whoever will undertake to test
the antiseptic power of any medicine, and also of
Radam's Microbe-Killer, as I tested medicines while mak-
ing my discovery, will find that Radam's Microbe -Killer
is the only antiseptic that will stand the test — namely,
stop fermentation in the human body without killing or
harming the patient. It will cure all diseases, because
there is only one disease — decay. Fermentation is the
cause of that, and microbes are the cause of the fer-
mentation.

CHAPTER XII.

CONSUMPTION : ITS CAUSE AND CURE.

Any disease which causes a gradual decay or wasting-
away of the body may be properly called consumption ;
but by general usage the term is now applied to a wast-
ing away of the lungs, and to distinguish it from other
lung diseases, as from all other diseases of the body, it
is scientifically termed tuberculosis. As this book is
w^ritten for the masses as well as for scientists, I shall
use the word consumption as it is popularly used, instead
of employing the less understood word tuberculosis.

There is probably no disease so much dreaded as is
consumption. It is more common in climates subject to
sudden changes, but thrives weU in all — in the north, the
south, the heated Bahamas and the arctic climes, in the
old continent and in the new continent, in England and
France, as well as in the Indies. Everywhere the disease
is known and dreaded. Were it not for consumption
the mortality rate would be far lower. It is estimated
that about ten per cent of the deaths in this country are
caused directly by consumption. In Paris it is believed
that nearly twenty-five per cent of the deaths are due to
this disease. These figures, of course, refer only to the
cases where death is due solely to the so-called disease.
It is quite certain, however, that in many other cases
consumption is combined with other ailments, ulti-
mately causing death, but from numerous compHcations
not attributable directly to consumption.

In a book of this character it is not necessary to de-
scribe at length the action of consumption. Every
person is more or less familiar with it, because there is
seldom a family and never a small community where
the disease is not known and dreaded. It seems to

consumption: its cause and cure. 115

reach out its arms to the robust and the deUcate alike,
and gradually it progresses, sapping the vitality until
death ensues.

All that it is necessary to say here about the action of
consumption is that the disease has greatly advanced
before it attacks the lungs. Gradually the lung cells
are destroyed, passing away in an offensive expectora-
tion, until finally so much of the lungs has rotted away
that the disease becomes incurable.

In some cases the patient may live for years, gradually
growing weaker, while in other cases the patient is sud-
denly seized with the disease, grows rapidly worse, and
dies within a few weeks or months.

So much for the general characteristics of consumption,
which are known even by schoolboys. We must look
deeper and ascertain exactly how consumption originates,
how it progresses and why it progresses, in order that, if
possible, we can discover a remedy for it. If we exam-
ine the expectoration of a consumptive with a powerful
microscope, we will see that it contains a great number
of different kinds of microbes. Some are tube-like, of
such small size that thousands of them might exist in a
drop of the expectorated matter without being visible
to the naked eye. A still more careful study of these
minute objects reveals the fact that they have life and
motion and rapidly propagate themselves. The tube-like
microbe is called the tubercle of consumption, and it is
the countless numbers of these tubercles in the lungs
which cause the gradual decay of those organs. There
are other microbes in the expectoration of consumptives,
but the tubercle is dreaded as the main source of danger.

It was only a few years ago that the particular microbe
claimed to be the cause of consumption was discovered
by Dr. Koch. Since then, with the most powerful
microscopes obtainable, I have studied these microbes
very carefully, propagated and photographed them
(see Plate XII.). The scientific world was slow to accept
the microbe theory of consumption, and, when it did
accept it, it went too far. It proclaimed the tuber-

116 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

cle the sole cause of consumption, and declared that if it
could once stamp out the tubercle bacillus consumption
would also be stamped out.

Their theories sounded pretty enough aside from their
absurdity. Suddenly Dr. Koch electrified the world by
announcing that he had discovered a lymph, the inocu-
lation with which would cure consumption. Medical
science accepted the discovery without question. Medi-
cal colleges and hospitals sent their physicians to Berlin
to carefully investigate the matter, and the whole world
believed consumption would soon be as curable as mea-
sles or chicken-pox.

Dr. Koch's lymph was simply an artificial propagation
of the consumption microbes outside the body. When
the patient was inoculated the process was simply to
inject a few more microbes into a system already teem-
ing with microbes. While the whole world was appa-
rently insane over the new alleged discovery, I — who had
never seen the action of the lymph upon a patient, but
v^ho believed that you might as well attempt to kill
weeds in a garden with weeds as to kill microbes in the
system with microbes — protested to the w^orld through
the newspapers that the lymph can never cure consump-
tion or any other disease.

Had my advice been taken at first much misery and
suffering would have been avoided. How many people
died from the effects of the lymph, directly or indirectly,
will never be known. The whole affair was simply an
experiment indulged in by the whole world of medical
science, and failed because the investigators had disre-
garded Nature and proceeded upon a false basis.

Until a few years ago consumption was believed to be
hereditary. As soon as the microbe theory was estab-^
lished medical scientists declared that it was not heredi-
tary, but contagious. On that principle they urged the
isolation of consumptives and recommended every pre-
caution that might lead to an extermination of the
tubercle, which they thought is the apparent cause of the
disease.

CONSUMPTION: ITS CAUSE AND CURE. 117

Almost every consumptive person will tell us that the
iirst symptom of his trouble was a cough, caused by
catching cold, followed by a discharge of fermented mat-
ter. This fermented matter is nothing but masses of
microbes. In fact, all fermentation is caused by microbes.
Sudden changes of temperature in the human body
cause a rapid interruption in the circulation of the blood,
as they do of sap in plants, and that process prepares
a certain seed bed and temperature necessary for the
development of microbes. Hence fermentation is the
result. To illustrate : If a setting hen sits continually,
she will hatch chickens ; but if she leaves or is driven
from her eggs very often, they will become cold, fermen-
tation will ensue, and the eggs will rot.

Seed planted early in the spring, when the ground is
warm, will germinate and grow ; but if a cold spell
should set in the seed will decompose or the plants
become yellow. Greenhouse plants suddenly exposed
from warm to cold also get sick. This clearly demon-
strates that there is no difference in that direction be-
tween animals and plants. The cause and result are
always the same.

As soon as microbes enter the system the blood be-
comes stagnant in the affected parts, the coats of the
stomach begin to ferment (in plants the roots ferment),
and the patient loses appetite, color, flesh, and weight
from excessive expectoration.

As water full of slime (see Plate II.) clogs up small
pipes, so blood filled with microbes is retarded in its free
circulation, and when this takes place (but not before)
^Hubercle bacilli" find their proper seed bed and the
temperature congenial to their propagation and exist-
ence prepared and aided by other microbes, and in com-
pany with them they assist in destroying the lungs.

This demonstrates that ^^ tubercle bacilli" do not
cause consumption, but merely accompany the disease.
We have never heard of healthy men and women losing
their lungs.

Consumption occurs in man, animals, and plants. It

118 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

means that the Hving body gradually ferments through
the action of many different kinds of microbes, which
can be seen when the product of fermentation is placed
under a high-power microscope. The ' ' tubercle bacilli '^
are entirely harmless to a healthy person.

There is no cause for alarm, as the tetanus bacillus,
which abounds in our streets, never causes lockjaw un-
less some accident causes a wound, allowing it to enter ;
then other microbes prepare the seed bed congenial for
the growth and propagation of tetanus bacilli, causing
the symptoms known as lockjaw.

Thousands of persons may be seen daily on our streets
with all the symptoms indicating consumption. Al-
though their sputum be a lively mass of microbes, yet it
does not reveal any trace of tubercle till they cough,
expectorate, and waste away. Finally their sputum
becomes discolored and they spit blood, a sign that
tubercles have at last found their proper seed bed pre-
pared, and, in company with other microbes, inaugurate
the disease called consumption.

The afore-mentioned explains its cause ; what follows
will show its cure.

Kemarkable though it be, no one has ever stopped
to ask what that fermented matter is, nor has any
one ever satisfactorily explained it ; and by reading
medical publications, and judging from the effects of
remedies prescribed for cure, it seems to me that no one
knows it. That this is true has been proven by the fact
that physicians everywhere tried to kill the *^ tubercle
bacilli" with Dr. Koch's lymph, thinking thereby to
cure consumption. Koch's lymph contained microbes,
factors of fermentation, and they sought to arrest fer*
mentation with fermentation.

Granted that tubercles could be destroyed themselves,
then I am fully able to prove by facts that this would
never cure consumption, for the simple reason that the
stomach and blood of a consumptive person are so full of
fermentation and gas, caused by many different kinds
of microbes, that the coats of the stomach also ferment.

consumption: its cause and cure. 119

and that organ (which is the foundation of the body) is
unable to digest food. It ferments and the greater part
is rejected. There is constant waste, but no repair. So
long as the patient cannot eat and digest his food, he
can never build up, any more than yellowish, sickly-
looking plants with their roots and sap full of fermenta-
tion can ever grow green again.

Florists (who, by the way, have to study the processes
of Nature more than any other profession) know too
well that to cure plants they have to remove the fer-
mentation from the roots first, then new rootlets will be
formed, and with proper nursing the plants will gradu-
ally grow green again. What the roots are to the plants,
the stomach is to man.

Knowing these facts, common sense tells us that to
cure consumption or any other disease (never mind about
diagnosis, name, or symptom, the cause being always
the same), we must stop fermentation by destroying
all the microbes existing in the stomach and blood.
This can only be done by the use of an antiseptic,
which must be harmless to the patient, so that it can be
used internally in large doses to saturate the whole sys-
tem for any length of time ; then fermentation will
gradually cease, the coats of the stomach become re-
newed, the appetite return, and the patient again di-
gest his food, which, by the way, contains all the in-
gredients necessary to form blood, flesh, and color. By
the use of Radam's Microbe-Killer, which is a harmless
antiseptic, every form of disease is curable, provided the
patient has sufficient vitality and substance left to build
up again.

To isolate consumptives by putting them into hospi-
tals (as suggested by some doctors) and letting them die
there will not improve the situation for the future. In
a rigorous and changeable climate people will always
suffer from consumption. By observing proper sanitary
conditions it may be prevented to some extent, and by
using Eadam's Microbe-Killer in time it will be easily
cured.

120 MICROBE AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

To cure a disease means to stop it, not allow it to go on.

So long as a wagon is housed and sheltered from the
rain it will remain uninjured ; but, as it is accustomed
to being driven out in any kind of weather, we preserve
it by coating every part with an antiseptic paint to pre-
vent it from rotting. Nature has placed something
everywhere to grow. She destroys everything that she
creates, and in man makes no exception. Man cannot
always stay in the house, he must go out into the wet
and cold, and if not prepared to resist the sudden changes
of • temperature he will catch cold. That produces a
cough, and fermented matter is discharged. Now, stop
this fermentation by the use of a genuine antiseptic,
and disease is cured. By this means we preserve the
body from an early fermentation and decay. Our Crea-
tor has given us a pair of eyes to see the fermentation,
a nose to smell it, and a brain to think over what this
fermentation really is. But, strange as it may seem,
most people do not care to use these organs, but rather
pay others for using theirs.

In spite of those natural facts which no one will dare
to deny, people still listen to such nonsense as that dis-
ease cannot be cured unless a regular medical, scientific
examination be made on their bodies to find out if the
lung is affected, and that a great many questions in
diagnosing the symptoms have to be asked (which
proves that the doctors do not know) to discover in
what particular part of the body the disease is (just as if
every part of the body could be cured separately) ; and
after much valuable time and money have been wasted
in destroying the common sense possessed by the patient,
he is now led to believe that he will get well again if
only he keep on swallowing punctually every hour (with-
out knowing what he swallows) the magic drops from
the large and the small bottle, which have no more to do
with stopping fermentation (which is disease) than green
apples have in curing dyspepsia. Hence disease goes on,
it becomes chronic, and the patient gradually ferments,
many in the prime of life.

PLATE XVI.

01. SPIRILLUM FINKLER ET PRIOR.

(IN CHOLERA MORBUS.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

G2. SPIRILLA yiBRIOSA.

X 1000, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam,

63. SPIRILLUM CONCENTRICUM.

(in putrefying blood.)
X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

64. BACILLUS CRASSUS SPUTIGENUS.

(in sputum and blood.)
X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

CHAPTEE XIII.

CROUP AND DIPHTHERIA IN CHILDREN.

If you should ask the mothers of the land what two
diseases above all others they would like to have stamped
out of existence, the answer would come, ^^ croup and
diphtheria." It is needless to describe the symptoms of
either of these diseases. Every mother knows them,
and every mother trembles when she hears the rasping
from the little cradle or hears her children complain of
sore throats.

The possible fatality of the diseases is what causes
this fear. Probably not thirty per cent of the children
attacked by the croup, nor more than fifty per cent of
those seized with diphtheria, fail to recover. The fear
that her child may be one of the unfortunate number
terrorizes the mother.

Both croup and diphtheria are microbe diseases as
well as all others. The reason that they have been con-
sidered dangerous is that they have been treated regard-
less of a thorough understanding of the disease. The
microbes of both diseases develop amazingly fast. There
is one microbe in the system to-day, to-morrow there are
millions, and within a few, hours longer the system is
teeming with microbes. In order to better understand
this fact let us examine both diseases separately and
carefully.

Croup probably develops quicker than any other dis-
ease, not excepting cholera or yellow fever. Under cer-
tain conditions microbes produce certain effects. They
are in a child's system, not necessarily working immedi-
ate injury, but waiting for a favorable opportunity to
develop further. The weakest portion of the system is
first attacked. Finally a sudden change in temperature

122 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

or exposure to cold chills the system of the child. The
throat happens to be the weakest part of the child's sys-
tem, and in the shock which follows the throat yields
first. The microbes find a seed bed in the throat and
develop most rapidly under the most perfect conditions.
Inflammation takes place, and in a few minutes the pro-
duct of the fermentation which ensues clogs up the air
passage by forming on all sides of the throat and reach-
ing toward the centre of the narrow channel, until a
false membrane, composed of microbes, germs, and se-
rum, seeks to cut off the communication with the lungs.
If the membrane is formed entirely across the throat
and cannot be immediately broken, strangulation natu-
rally follows. In other words, death by croup is caused
in a manner that may be compared to the clutching of
a child's throat by a powerful hand and the grip remain-
ing fast until the little life has ebbed away.

All attempts to cure croup are directed toward one
end— the breaking up or dislodging of the false mem-
brane. If this can be accomplished the jcure is com
plete, although the disease is likely to return again under
favorable circumstances. To dislodge this false mem-
brane physicians employ harsh remedies and ofttimes
the handle of a small spoon. Occasionally their efforts-
are successful. Often they are not.

The investigations I have made in croup demonstrate
that it is seldom treated upon principles true to Na-
ture. It may be a step in the right direction to break
this false membrane, but how much better is a treat-
ment directed against the cause which forms the mem-
brane ! Arrest the fermentation and you immediately
arrest the formation of the slime which finally becomes
the membrane. The microbes which cause this fermen-
tation are almost instantly rendered inactive by the mi-
crobe-killer. In the thousands of cases treated by pa-
rents themselves with the aid of the microbe -killer, I have
never heard of a single case of membranous croup that
did not yield within five minutes to the microbe killer.
Instantly the cause was stopped and the membrane

CROUP AND DIPHTHERIA IX CHILDREN. 125

partially formed was dissolved. Another noticeable re-
sult of the use of the microbe-killer in such cases has
been that rarely was the child affected with the disease
again, but if so it yielded still more easily to the gas-
impregnated water.

The trouble with many people is that either through
carelessness or ignorance they do not have at hand the
necessary remedies when they are most needed. I
knew once of a wealthy manufacturer whose child was
dying with croup. Those who were with him said that
he wrung his hands and cried, ^^ My fortune, my pros-
pects, my very life for something that will cure my
child." But the child died. Had the microbe-killer been
in that household, and instantly used, recovery would
have been certain. This illustration only shows how
important it is to have the right thing at the right time,
as an ounce of prevention is well worth a pound of cure.

Diphtheria is a most singular as well as dangerous
disease. It develops much slower than croup and yet
much more effectively. It is contagious and malignant,
and the special microbe (see Plate IX., No. 36) which
causes it does not require a seed bed of long development,
but assists in making its own seed bed. The microbes
attack the lining of the throat, producing fermenta-
tion, which is shown in the little pustules or festers
which make their appearance. The microbes, of course,
are in the blood, and there are few microbes more poi-
sonous than the microbes of diphtheria. The whole
system is saturated with poison, and even if the patient
recovers months will elapse before this poison is driven
out of the system. In many cases death does not occur
until after the fermentation has practically left the
throat. The physician then attributes death to Bright's
disease or some other ailment — and indeed those organs
are affected, but the main cause of death was the diph-
therial poison in the system. It attacked the weakest
portion of the system. If that portion happened to be
the kidneys, as is often the case, then the cause of death
was attributed to Bright's disease.

124 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER.

The effect of the microbe-killer in diphtheria has been
remarkable. The microbe yields quickly, and a use of
the microbe-killer a short time afterward drives the
poison out of the system and makes recovery speedy
and certain. I have never knov^rn a case of diphtheria
treated with this discovery which proved fatal, and I do
not believe it would be possible for a fatal case to occur
when a liberal use of the microbe-killer was the prompt
treatment.

Physicians long ago accepted my theory that diph-
theria was caused by microbes. The remedies they
universally employ to cure the disease are antiseptics.
The most common, probably, is to spray the throat with
a weak solution of carbolic acid. Carbolic acid is a
good disinfectant, but experiments I have frequently
made show that a solution containing carbolic acid,
v^eak enough to be employed in spraying the throat
without injury to the patient, will not kill the microbes.
This can be readily proven by placing the microbes from
diphtheria in that solution — they will still live. But,
on the other hand, place those microbes in Eadam's Mi-
crobe-Killer and their propagation is immediately stop-
ped and in a short time the microbes are actually dead.
Could any one need stronger arguments than these to
convince him that disease is fermentation, and to cure
it there must be employed an antiseptic, absolutely
harmless to the weakest system, but still so powerful as
to kill the microbes which cause that fermentation ? It
naturally follows that such an antiseptic should be al-
ways at hand, to be used whenever the emergency arises.

CHAPTER XIV.

CHARACTERISTICS OF DISEASE GERMS.

The propagation and growth of microbes is governed
by air, heat, and moisture. They also need a certain
seed bed in which to grow, just hke plants. For in-
stance, the fungi that grow on a rosebush do not grow
on a geranium. The fungus that grows on a pear will
not grow on an apple, orange, plum, or cherry. The
microbes that grow and produce disease in a horse are
not necessarily harmful to a cow. Even children are
attacked by different microbes, hence they suffer from
diseases different from those w^hich attack adults. In
fact, each and every species of microbe needs a certain
seed bed and temperature before it can propagate.

Disease germs only which propagate and grow in the
human body are the cause of our diseases, although
there are many different kinds of these germs, and con-
sequently they cause the different classes of so called
diseases. All other germs or microbes which may enter
our system, but do not find there the proper seed bed
and temperature for their existence, are perfectly harm-
less. Some physicians say that^there are good and bad
microbes, and that both are necessary for our existence
in order to produce digestion and fermentation. This is
not true. In a clean, healthy stomach the food never
ferments, but is digested before it has time to ferment.
Food eaten in a certain state of fermentation will affect
the stomach and produce sickness, in the same way that
fresh stable manures just in the state of fermentation
will produce sickness in plants if placed around their
roots. Any fermentation that may go on in the food at
the time we eat it produces sickness at once. Whoever
has eaten stale meat or spoiled food of any kind knows

126 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

the result. If a horse eats too much green corn and
drinks water immediately afterward, fermentation sets
in before the stomach has time to digest the food.
Hence there is fermentation, and the horse is attacked
lay the colic — that is, volumes of gas are produced by
the action of the microbes which cause the fermenta-
tion. This gas naturally causes the body to swell, and
pain is the result. Sometimes this pain is most excru-
ciating, and frequently death is the result.

A quart of the microbe-killer administered in such
cases kills the microbes at once. Hence fermentation
ceases and no more gas is produced. If relief does not
follow at once, a pint of microbe-killer injected into the
rectum will cause the gases to disappear immediately,
a,nd consequently the swelling of the body also passes
away.

I tried to produce the same symptoms of colic in my
stomach, in order to test the efficiency of 'the microbe-
killer. I ate a large quantity of unripe pears and then
drank a bottle of stale beer. In fifteen minutes fermen-
tation set in and I had the colic. After the pain became
too severe to be endured I drank the tumblerful of the mi-
crobe-killer. This stopped the pain somewhat, but two
glasses additional, swallowed at intervals of five min-
utes, reheved me of all pain, and my stomach had then
time enough to digest the food, as this was thoroughly
saturated with the microbe -killer.

The same results have been experienced by others
who have suffered from indigestion. A glass of microbe-
killer, drunk immediately after eating, always gives
relief. This goes to show that the food does not ferment
in a healthy stomach, and that, if we can stop it from
fermenting in a sick stomach, it will always be digested.
Had I possessed a quart of the microbe-killer at the time
my two children were ill, they would not have died
from fermentation in the stomach, which caused all
food to be rejected. I point out this incident simply to
show what the result will be if people listen to and be-
lieve that we need good microbes and that the food in
our stomach must ferment.

CHARACTERISTICS OF DISEASE GERMS. 127

Now, the fact is, microbes produce fermentation, and
no fermentation of any kind is wanted in the human
body. Tapeworms, trichinae spirahs, flesh worms, and
the like are parasites and not microbes. They may eat,
even pierce holes, but they can never bring about fer-
mentation, although they may bring about a condition
in which the microbes can more easily cause fermenta-
tion. Buttermilk is full of- microbes, and so is beer.
We drink them to nourish our body. As our system
has not the ingredients of milk or beer, these microbes
die. Hence they are harmless. There are thousands
and thousands of so-called good microbes that we eat,
drink, or inhale, but none of them grow in our body or
blood, consequently they are harmless. When we are
sick we do not fight the good microbes, but those which
propagate and grow in our body and are generally called
disease germs.

There is so much nonsense written or told about mi-
crobes to patients by men in the profession who do not
know anything about Nature, that I am forced to pro-
duce stubborn facts of Nature, over which they may
ponder a little. The question has also been asked, if
we can kill all the microbes in the human body, will
this not kill the generative microbe ?

My answer is that there are no generative microbes,
there is no generative fermentation. The seed in man
or woman is no more microbe or disease than the seed
of a plant or tree is a disease. When a plant is sick the
flowers and seed will never be perfect ; in most cases the
seed will be hollow. When a man or woman is sick their
seed, too, is not perfect, and in some cases not fruitful.
To cure a man or woman of incompetency and nervous-
ness, their blood must first be purified from all microbes,
so that they may become healthy. Then plenty of seed
wiU be produced. The whole process observed in the
propagation of plants by seed acts in the very same
manner as in the propagation of mankind. In fact,
whatever I learned in raising plants through hybridiza-
tion, cultivation, and curing them of disease, can safely

I

12B MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

be applied to mankind without making any mistakes.
Nature brings forth new plants and new flowers e very-
year by hybridization ; Nature also in the same manner
brings forth new microbes, hence we have new diseases.
Physicians bother themselves about diagnosis of symp-
toms in trying to give the disease a certain name, and
while they are delaying and consulting each other the
patient dies.

Another great mistake I found in reading over books
treating about bacteriology is the process employed bj
those professors to settle the question whether this or
that disease is caused by microbes. They generally inject
a drop of pus or fermented matter obtained from a sick
person under the skin of a rabbit or guinea-pig, to see
if the animal will be affected with the same disease.
Some of them try to isolate the different microbes con-
tained in the fermented matter obtained from a sick
person, by raising them artificially on agar-agar, beef
broth, potatoes, rice, etc., where the microbes separate
into different colonies. These are then injected under
the skin of rabbits or guinea-pigs. If the process fails
to cause sickness and the same symptoms as those dis-
played by the patient from whom the fermentation was
taken, then they say that it has not been demonstrated
that this particular kind of disease is caused by microbes.

And so they go on trying to establish diseases caused
by microbes on a test which the reader will see, from my
observation and experiments made on plants, proves
what can be expected.

I found that if I graft a bud or scion from a peach tree
suffering from the blight to a healthy peach seedling,
the disease is transferred to the seedling, as can be
seen by the yellow leaves. But I have never succeeded
in producing the same result by transferring diseases
peculiar to the peach tree over into apple, pear, or cherry
trees. In fact, the scions or buds refused to unite or
grow at all, for the reason that the apple, pear, or cherry
is entirely different in growth, structure, sap, leaves,
and fruit from peach trees. But, in my opinion, they

PLATE XVII.

65. BACILLUS ANTHRACIS.

(fiER. MILZBRAND. FR. CHARBON.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

66. BACILLUS ANTHRACIS.

(GER. MILZBRAND. FR. CHARBON.)

X ;i500. Photomicrogi-aph by Wm. Radam.

67. BACILLUS ANTHRACIS.

(SHOWING SPORES.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

68. BACILLUS ANTHRACIS.

(IN KIDNEY.)

X 1000. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam,

CHARACTERISTICS OF DISEASE GERMS. 129

are not as far away as man is from a guinea-pig, rabbit,
or mouse. If we look at the form of the blood corpuscles
obtained from an ox, fish, frog, or pigeon, we see at once
that they are different in size and form. As the blood
corpuscles are different in each animal from those of
man, this explains why each of them suffers from dis-
eases which would never affect man, or vice versa.

In my article on consumption I have shown that
even the tubercle bacilli would refuse to propagate in a
healthy person, for the simple reason that each kind of
microbe requires a certain seed bed and a certain tempe-
rature in which to grow, just as the different varieties of
plants require.

We know very well that not every person catches the
cholera, small-pox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, etc., for the
simple reason that each variety of microbe and disease
germ needs a certain seed bed and temperature in order
to grow and develop. The raising of microbes in bottles,
injecting them with instruments into small, innocent
animals, may look scientific, but my observations of
Nature prove that those experiments have nothing to do
in settling the question if a certain disease is caused by
a certain microbe or not. If the disease is not caused by
a microbe, how is it caused, then ?

Whenever I examine any fermented matter under the
microscope I see microbes ; be the matter gall stone,
gravel, tubercles, pus, or whatever name the physicians
may give, it is life. And that these little creatures
possess some sort of sense can be seen by their move-
ments. Like stars, some varieties shoot over the field
without running into each other, and some of them seem
to amuse themselves by trying to catch each other.
Sometimes one swims over the field and another follows ;
then the first suddenly turns and the other follows in
the same angle. Does this not show that even the
smallest creatures, that can only be seen when magnified
a thousand times, must possess some sort of sense ? And
how many microbes may there be which we cannot
detect at all ? How many stars do we see, and how many
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MICROBES AND THE MICROBE KILLER.

may there be which we cannot see ? Any man who de-
nies that all diseases are caused by microbes has no
business to be meddUng with scientific subjects, because
he will do more harm than he can possibly do good.
To claim but not to prove anything shows nothing.
Whatever I did claim I proved, for the reason that I
write nothing down except what Nature actually shows.
There may be some subjects omitted in this volume, but
what I have written is sufficient proof that the cause and
cure of all diseases has been discovered. The photo-
micrographs are subject to improvement, but the facts of
Nature — how she destroys, and what must be done to
stop the destroying element — cannot be changed. Hence
what I have written needs no future revision. It is
written for all time to come.

CHAPTER XV.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY.

The reader who has carefully perused the preceding
-chapters and examined the photographs of microbes will
possess a better and more thorough knowledge of a diffi-
cult scientific subject than possessed by ordinary medical
scientists. In fact, if the reader has become convinced
that the cause of all disease is fermentation, that this
fermentation is caused by microbes, that in order to
cure disease you must stop fermentation, and that in
order to stop fermentation you must kill the microbes
which cause it, the object of the author in writing this
book is accomplished. A few general observations on
microbes is all that is now necessary.

Fungi differ from all other vegetable organizations, as
I hinted previously. Other plants live upon inorganic
food, and produce protoplasm by the combination of
water, ammonia, and carbonic acid, whereas fungi live
upon organic matter and are genuine parasites. Some
even propagate in a sexual manner, and for that reason
have been placed by a few biologists in the animal king-
dom, but the distinction is not universally acknowledged,
and they still hold their place in the vegetable kingdom.
In the production of diseased conditions the fungus is no
less active than the yet more simple forms — in fact, it is
probably more active, since it seems to possess a greater
power in promoting fermentation. The exact rationale
of this process has not, so far as I am aware, ever been
explained, but when we know the peculiar difference
that separates a fungus from other plants it is not diffi-
cult to form a theory. Take, for example, the microbe
of intermittent fever. This circulates in the blood. It
lives upon the blood corpuscles, destroying their vitality

132 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

and form, appropriating oxygen and exhaling carbonic
acid. The older chemists thought that it was a mere
effect of contact, but that idea must be laid aside in view
of the certainty that a chemical decomposition takes
place, and that the destruction of the properties of the
blood is really due to that cause.

The extreme minuteness of these micro-organisms is
a feature that must always be borne in mind. Not only
are they small, often beyond reach of any but the
highest microscopic powers, but their tissues are ex-
tremely dehcate, so as to render them imperceptible
sometimes to all but the most practised eyes. For this
reason it is extremely difficult to meet with them when
they do not afford a sufficient resistance to light to en-
able us to obtain photographs or any natural delineation.

And it was this difficulty which I had to overcome in
producing most of the plates that appear in this work.
No attempt had ever before been made to convey by
means of such illustrations to the general public an idea
of what microbes are, and, when it is remembered that
they are so minute and so translucent as scarcely to cast
a shadow, the reason may be understood. So-called
engravings of microbes of la grippe, for instance, and
other diseases, which have appeared in the papers, are
purely the work of somebody's imagination. They bear
no resemblance whatever to the reality.

This peculiarity does not affect the vitality of mi-
crobes. Minute and delicate though they are, they are
extremely tenacious of life. They cannot be destroyed
readily. When my factories were first established I had
abundant opportunity to make a collection of numerous
forms of microbes. My patients brought me bottles of
matter, for examination, in a state of fermentation, and
sometimes I discovered in one of them as many as from
six to ten varieties, showing to me conclusively that
that person had as many forms of disease, while the pa-
tient may have been treated for but one ailment by his
doctor. Sometimes I received matter from the stomach
of a patient immediately after he had taken his medi-

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<*ine. This I usually preserved for the purpose of learn-
ing whether the medicine would stop the fermentation.
I kept the matter in carefully stopped bottles, and inva-
riably I found that the fermentation continued. The
microbes were not killed, but they went on multiplying
throughout the whole time, showing that the medicine
that had been given was utterly useless to destroy the
cause of disease. Physicians are well aware of the in-
effectiveness of many of their remedies, and they are
willing to acknowledge among themselves that the only
really powerful drugs in battling with microbes are fatal
also to the patient. Of these the principal are corrosive
sublimate and carbolic acid, but they must be used in
considerable strength. Strong alcohol has no effect on
dried microbes, but, especially if used in its fullest
strength, it is a powerful agent when the germs are in
a moistened condition. Boracic acid, once thought of
so much value, has been shown to possess no action
whatever, after ten days' trial the germs resisting it
most effectually. Iodine has been tried for forty-eight
hours, and found also to produce no effect. Chloride
of zinc, oil of turpentine, thymol, and eucalyptol have
yielded similar negative results. Ointments of iodoform
and iodol are equally ineffectual. The strongest iodo-
form simply retarded the development of microbes after
twelve hours' exposure. It did not kill them. Hot wa-
ter does not destroy them, unless it be raised to near the
boiling temperature. Permanganate of potash has been
recommended, but the effect here is curious. Instead
of the salt killing the microbe, the microbe decomposes
the permanganate and renders it ineffectual. Peroxide,
of hydrogen is uncertain, and at the best produces very
little effect, and chlorate of potash is, for all practical
purposes, useless.

In like manner, physicians admit, as the teaching of
experiment, that oil of mustard, arsenious acid, and
even the much- vaunted salicylic acid, are quite unreli-
able and inefficient. It comes, in fact, to this, that the
three most powerful agents used by the doctors are car-

134 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

bolic acid, corrosive sublimate, and strong alcohol. But-
how can the body be saturated with either of them ?
One-sixtieth of a grain is a dose of corrosive sublimate,
yet, to destroy the cause of a disease, it is necessary to
reach throughout all the tissues, and long before that-
point were reached the patient would be dead.

I wish to avoid conveying the impression to even the
most unsophisticated reader that I claim any original-
ity in attributing disease to the presence of microbes.
That view is fully accepted by the medical profession.
The difference is that, whereas physicians attribute only
a few diseases to this cause, I aver that it is the origin
of all. Every year, too, adds to the doctors' list, and
zymotic ailments are gradually becoming more nume-
rous. Even in diseases like small-pox, whooping cough,
and measles, where the special microbe has not been ab-
solutely identified in the blood, its existence is admitted.
In this way the whole subject has received attention^
and many points of interest and practical value have
been obtained.

Some forms of microbes have the power of producing
spores, and these are more capable of resisting anti-
septics than are the fully developed germs. Diseases
where this form of bacillus exists are consequently
more difficult to cure, and it is more than probable that
small-pox comes in this category. Experiments insti-
tuted by Prof. Koch for the German Imperial Board of
Health are among the most important that bear upon
the resistance of these organisms, and the effects of va-
rious agents. It created no little surprise among phy-
sicians when Koch reported that many of the most pop-
ular and, as was supposed, the most powerful antiseptics
or germicides were, in fact, of no use at all. Carbolic
acid restrained their growth, but unless used in very
powerful form it was much less efficacious in destroying
their vitality. A one-per-cent solution required fifteen
days in which to kill them, and then only when they
were kept submerged in the fluid the whole time. It
is remarkable, too, that when the carbolic acid was

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY. 135

mixed with alcohol it had no disinfecting influence at
all. Bisulphide of carbon had no effect upon them until
a temperature of 176^ was reached, which, of course, is
far beyond any practical temperature for the body.
Bacteria that are free from spores may be destroyed at
212°, the boiling point of water, but spore-bearing mi-
crobes will resist 280°. Excepting the germ of yellow
fever, their bodies are proof against cold as well as
against heat. The microbe of typhus withstands a con-
siderable degree of cold, thus indicating a typical differ-
ence between that and yellow fever.

I have succeeded in propagating microbes in different
fluids in which some of these medicines, as carbolic and
muriatic acids, were mixed. Hydrochloric acid is in-
deed present in the stomach during digestion, where,
being in small quantities, it certainly does not destroy
fermentation. I have added to my bottles of microbe
culture as much as twenty-five percent of mercury, and
even with that degree of strength it required from three
to ten hours to kill them. All this line of experiment-
ing convinced me that I have to use large doses of med-
icine, and to carry it through all the tissues, if I would
destroy the microbes of disease ; but with the medicines
that the doctors prescribe this cannot be done, and, with
the small doses they are forced to give, nothing but a
very imperfect result is possible. I often found the con-
tents of bottles which I carried about with me to be
dried up. Nothing remained but a dry, dusty substance,
which would break up like the ashes of a cigar. When
I added a little distilled water to this, and allowed it to
stand for a few days, the microbes would be alive again,
multiplying as rapidly as before, because the germs re-
main dormant in a dry state, just like seeds, but they
will grow when kept moist. Every housekeeper knows
that yeast cakes may be kept dry for months, and that as
soon as they are moistened and placed under favorable
circumstances, with a sufficient temperature, they in-
duce fermentation. This is nothing more than the yeast
plant, which is a fungus or microbe, revivifying and in-

136 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

creasing and growing, feeding for the time on the mate-
rial in which it is placed, and, like an animal, giving out
carbonic acid.

Some organisms cease to exist when the process of
putrefaction to which they gave rise has attained to a
certain excess, as if the results of the chemical changes
were themselves sufficient to destroy life. But this con-
dition is beyond my province to notice except as a matter
of interest. Disease germs in a state of activity sufficient
to reproduce disease may be conveyed, as already ex-
plained, directly from the body or discharges, including
the exhalation from the skin, also from the clothes or
bedding, or through the air or articles of food, or by dust
that settles on the walls or floor, or from the soil, or
through defects in sewerage. Fire is the only absolutely
perfect disinfectant, but other means will suffice if ac-
companied by proper precautions.

From what I have previously said it is easy to see how
germs may be taken into the system from the atmo-
sphere. Those ordinarily there may not be productive
of disease, but that is of no practical import. I have
shown the danger arising from the too prevalent habit
of expectoration. But if we pass from outdoors into the
sick-room it is greatly increased. A person suffering
with diseases such as scarlet fever, measles, etc., may
be the means of allowing microbes to get into the bed
coverings. This will dry up and remain there until di s
turbed, when immediately they float about the air and
may pass into the lungs of other individuals. This,
again, indicates two points that are not sufficiently
attended to. One is the folly, before referred to, of hav-
ing draperies, curtains, and hangings about the sick-
chamber ; and the other the mistake that is often made
in the use of disinfectants after illness, since it is shown
that germs in a dry state will resist antiseptics that
would be effectual if they were merely moistened. It is
for this reason that chlorine and sulphurous acid gas so
frequently fail to produce the effect desired. Thus people
are often very unnecessarily surprised when, after what

PLATE XVIII. ^

TAPEWORM WITH HEAD.

Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

71. EGGS OF TAPEWORM.

x^30. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

72. TRICHINA SPIRALIS IN FLESH.

X 50. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY. 137

they think has been a disinfecting process, cholera, yel-
low fever, scarlet fever, or some disease of that kind will
break out again, often with more virulence than before.

If meat that has been hung a few days in unfavorable
weather, until an odor of fermentation can be discovered,
be placed under the microscope, microbes may be detected
producing fermentation and putrefaction ; and thus the
nose becomes an organ to warn its owner against a dan-
ger which the eyes fail to discover. I have no doubt that
considerable sickness is caused by the recent custom of
eating meat improperly cooked. Doctors sometimes
order their patients to eat raw meat and to drink fresh
blood. In these instances the patients take nourishment
into the system, and they also take the germs of disease.
We all know the terrible effects produced by trichinae
that infest raw pork ; how, when taken into the stom-
ach, they soon develop throughout the whole system,
and the victim soon dies in indescribable torture. Per-
sons who take raw meat, or eat underdone meat, are
liable to a similar evil, if in a less degree. Microbes are
not killed except by a very high degree of heat — a degree
much higher than that which enters into the substance
of meat that is insufficiently cooked.

A temperature of 212° will, as I have stated already,
suffice to destroy many germs, but there are some that
survive a higher degree of heat unless it is continued for
a considerable time. Epidemics are certainly conveyed
in milk, but wherever the milk is carefully and suffi-
ciently boiled no disease is ever induced by it. A case
is on record where a number of persons were seized with
a severe attack of choleraic diarrhoea after partaking
of a boiled ham at a public lunch. It was proved that
the meat contained numbers of spore-bearing microbes,
which are always difficult to kill, and that it had been
insufficiently cooked. In another instance similar re-
sults followed after a number of persons had eaten of
well-cooked pork. But in that case the micro-organisms
had taken their origin in the food after it had been
cooked — a fact which again conveyed a useful lesson.

138 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

In freezing, the microbes of meat are not destroyed ;
they simply remain dormant and cease propagating, as
they do in dry dust, but as soon as the meat is thawed
they begin again to do their work ; they increase and
multiply ; the process of fermentation begins and that
of putrefaction soon follows. It is extremely difficult to
kill them. Even where sulphurous acid gas is used, seve-
ral hours become necessary in which to continue the pro-
cess, and all atmospheric air must be carefully excluded.
The sulphur gas must have access to every crack and
crevice, for if but a vestige of microbe life remains it
will develop, and the fumigation or disinfecting process
will have been in vain. To say that microbes may be
dissipated or destroyed by firing cannon, building fires,
or spraying something into the air, is simply a result of
ignorance.

Microbes are known to exist in sulphuric acid and in
many other powerful poisons, but they are not of a kind
that would produce disease in the human body, because
they could not find a suitable nidus there. It shows,
however, what they may be, and how capable they are
of sustaining life under conditions where it seems im-
possible. If microbes from the body be placed in sul-
phuric acid they are, of course, instantly consumed.

The micro-organisms are universal. If all were detri-
mental to the human body we could not live for twenty-
four hours. We inhale them with our breath, take
them into the system with our food, and can barely
handle anything without coming in contact with them.
Some are even healthful. The yeast plant is one of
them, and the fungi that we have in wine, beer, and
vinegar are not injurious. It is only disease-producing
germs that we have to combat, and those which find a
suitable nidus in the human body for propagation.

Sometimes doctors have told me that in destroying
disease germs we destroy also microbes that may be
useful. To that I can confidently reply that I have de-
stroyed disease microbes in myself and in thousands of
other persons, and that if the good ones have gone too

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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY. 13^

they have never been missed. An unhealthy tree does
not produce healthy fruit, neither does a constitutionally
unhealthy person produce healthy offspring. His vital
ity is destroyed by another microbe, which is out of
place and dangerous. But get rid of the disease germs,
and Nature will build up the system and produce vigor-
ous health and life-giving powers. When a person tells
me that he suffers from nervous irritability or depres-
sion, feels weak and wanting in energy, is unable to
bring himself to his work, and is generally incompetent,
I know that he must take microbe -killer, which will de-
stroy disease germs. This can only be done when the
body has been built up and the whole system is strength-
ened, so that the blood, purified and enriched, shall cir-
culate freely and impart vigor and tone to the sensations
as well as to the body. For with improved circulation
the whole nervous system is strengthened. Irritability
and extreme sensitiveness disappear. The nerves per-
form their legitimate functions and the individual is
brought up to a standard of normal health such as the
body is fitted for. Water that is not kept in motion
becomes foul and stagnant. Fungi grow in it, and fer-
mentation and putrefaction are encouraged. And so it
is with the blood. Directly it ceases to circulate freely
we have an indication that there is something wrong,
that it contains something that ought not to be there.
When it is well nourished and clear, so that it circulates
freely, no palpitation or nervousness or any pain will
worry us. Under that condition we cannot be sick or
ailing. The blood is the life. If we can keep it always
free from microbes and impurities, and in a condition
where it furnishes sustenance to the tissues as it should
do, we may prolong our lives till old age ends them.
Children and young people who are free from hereditary
trouble die as a consequence of the ignorance of the
medical faculty, who mistake or misunderstand the
cause of the disease, and consequently err in providing
a remedy.

With the microbe-killer near at hand sickness is shorn

14:0 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

of all its terrors. We need not fear it, for the remedy is
with us. We can stop it at once and renew ourselves
again, even as a house may be painted again and again
to preserve it from fungi, which, of course, cannot attack
it as readily as though it were not painted. Precisely
the same thing occurs in the body when the microbe-
killer is applied, as must be evident to those who have
followed me through my description of the cures I have
effected in chronic diseases. Nothing is more simple
than to cure disease when it first begins, provided we
deal with it intelligently and according to the directions
and principles that I have laid down.

Any one who goes carefully through the foregoing
pages will have to admit that I have set down nothing
which is incapable of proof. I deal in no guesswork,
empiricism, or theory, but in hard facts ; and these, I
think, I have made clear and convincing.

Man had better never have been created, if he was to
be destined to everlasting misery and wretchedness.
People's brains are not of equal value or equal force, but
everybody has at least some, and, such as they are, he
should make the best use of them. They must be very bad
indeed if they cannot be made available to do a little
thinking, if only just enough to take care of the body they
are attached to. The man who, unaffiicted by disease or
some natural debihty, cannot take care of himself can
hardly expect that other people will take care of him.
People should not be led away by every charlatan who
jumps up before them and talks ; but as long as the
world lasts there will probably be fools in it, and fools
are a godsend to rogues. There is a fascination in being
humbugged. Make it known to the world that you are
going to do some impossible thing, and the world will
pay money to come in and see you do it, although well
understanding all the while that the thing cannot be
done. It is a part, possibly, of the perversity of human
nature, which in practice refuses to realize that talking
about something and giving proof of it are two very dif-
ferent things. There are hundreds and thousands of

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY. 141

men — ay, and women too — who have a great deal to
say about disease and medicine who have the stamp of
impostors branded on their face. It is not enough that
a man shall promise to cure disease ; let him give prac-
tical demonstration of his ability to do what he says.
Until he has done that, he is unworthy of credence or
confidence. It is nothing that he writes books and calls
it science, and asks the people to pay for it as such. He
must show by actual proof that it is not the outpouring
of worse than unpardonable ignorance. Genuine science
gives facts and proof that they are facts, so that people
who will take the trouble may judge for themselves and
be satisfied.

That is the principle that has actuated me in my dis-
covery. I religiously abstain from making any promise
which I cannot fulfil. I have stated nothing as a fact
which I cannot prove. I have given honestly and as
plainly as possible, so that all may understand, the whole
history of my discovery, how I came to make it, and
what it has done, and there is not a single assertion
throughout this book bearing upon the microbe-killer
which is not absolutely true. But, to put the whole mat-
ter as concisely as possible, the facts which I have dis-
covered and which I am especially prepared to prove are
these :

1. The discovery that the cause of all diseases is fer-
mentation, and that this fermentation is caused by mi-
crobes. Any person who tries to contradict this must
show by facts that there is one single disease which is
not caused by microbes.

2. The discovery of the universal remedy which will
stop fermentation in the human body without killing
the patient or causing injury in any manner. The uni-
versal remedy may be called the cure of all diseases.

In addition to discovering the cause of all diseases and
the cure of all diseases, I have conclusively proven the
following facts :

1. That the sick can be cured without regard to symp-
toms.

142 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

2. That the sick can cure themselves without ex-
pensive medical treatment, thereby saving time and
money.

3. That little children who cannot tell their symptoms
or ailments are cured by the microbe-killer without
danger, because their diseases are caused by microbes.

4. That by the use of the microbe-killer every disease
can be cured without the use of surgical instruments,
thus doing away with painful operations.

5. That disease can be cured by the microbe-killer
without causing drunkards, morphine or cocaine fiends.

6. That by a free use of the microbe-killer every dis-
ease can be stopped before it can develop sufficiently to
kill the patient, thus saving time, money, misery, and
in most cases painful death.

7. That with the microbe-killer in the house, all danger
of being poisoned, especially in the dark, by mistaking
a poisonous medicine for a harmless one, is removed.

8. That as the microbe-killer is always ready, abso-
lutely harmless, and easy to take, it saves time and
needless expense in arresting disease which would other-
wise run its course.

9. That as the microbe-killer has cured every kind of
disease upon which it has been tried, it is reasonable to
expect that it vv^ill stamp out cholera and other epi-
demics.

10. As diseases in animals are also caused by microbes,
the microbe-killer naturally cures diseases in animals.

11. That I have discovered a practical way how to test
any medicine or drug outside the human body, if it can
cure or not, and if it is harmless or not, thus doing away
with all dangerous experiments on the patient. It was
this test which made me declare in the public press that
Dr. Koch's lymph could not cure consumption.

12. That I was the first to present to the public the
cause of diseases by true illustrations as seen through
the microscope. The photomicrographs seen in this
book were made by me after years of patient work.
Their object is to cause the reader to think and investi-

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND SUMMARY. 143

gate, and to remove the absurdities which have grown
up through ignorance on the part of medical science.

13. And last, but not least, that the studies of Nature,
in all her various forms, which I have made renders me
competent to defend myself against all medical theories
and guesswork.

CHAPTER XVL

IMITATIONS OF, AND PERSECUTIONS AGAINST, THE
MICROBE-KILLER.

Unfortunately for science and humanity, there is a
large class of unscrupulous men who are continually
seeking to profit through the genius or labors of others.
They have not the power to originate, nor even to copy
where to copy requires any degree of skill. If they can
copy or imitate they do so. If they are unable to copy
or imitate they pretend they have done so. In the in-
fancy of a discovery they stand idly by, but as soon as
the discovery is proven of value to humanity, then they
begin at once to imitate.

The microbe-killer has probably had more imitators
than any other scientific discovery. The first was a few
months after my discovery, when a druggist near where
I lived placed a medicine on the market which he pre-
tended would destroy microbes. Later, however, dozens
of remedies sprang up all over the country under the
names of ^* Germ-Killers," ^'Germicide," ^* Microbine,"
or similar names, alleged to kill microbes. It is need-
less to say more about them. They were imitations,
pure and simple, and not only failed to kill microbes,
which was claimed for them, but were dangerous to use.
In addition to stealing the theory of my discovery many
of these imitators even went further. They copied my
circulars and changed my testimonials, claiming them
for their alleged remedies. My resort, of course, was
to the courts. Suit after suit was instituted, and always
with success. If an alleged remedy was driven out
under one name, in a few days it would appear under
another name. Frequently there were cases in which
my name and labels, as well as the jug I have used in put-

PLATE XIX.

73. MICROCOCCUS TRACHOMA
CONJUNCTA.

(TRACHOMA.)

^x 2500. Photomicrograph byjWm. Radam,

74. BACILLUS ECLAMPSIJE

(Afanassiew).

(IN WHOOPING COUGH.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

75. BACILLUS DER WILDSEUCHE

(Kitt).

(SEPTICEMIA IN DEER.)

X 3500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

76. MICROCOCCUS DE MASTITIS.

(IN COWS.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 145

ting the microbe-killer before the public, were used.
Thousands of letters came to me containing complaints.
In almost every State in the Union I fought the imita-
tors.

Probably the most persistent attack made against me
and the microbe-killer was by a physician who was also
a chemist. He caused to be published in a trade jour-
nal a series of articles calculated to injure me and pre-
vent people from using my discovery. The attacks
made against Harvey and Jenner years ago were no se-
verer than the attacks made against me, except that no
physical violence was attempted. In the articles pub-
lished I was branded as a pretender, a charlatan, and
an ignorant florist who never had studied even the ru-
diments of medical science. The microbe-killer was
characterized as a cheap compound possessing no cura-
tive powers. An analysis of the microbe-killer was also
published, which, however, was not claimed to be ab-
solutely correct, but nearly so.

The attack was promptly answered by me through the
newspapers with incontrovertible arguments, and the
physician who had instituted the attack was given au
opportunity to retract his statements. This he wilfully
neglected to do, and I began a suit for libel in the New
York Supreme Court. There were delays and adjourn-
ments, and when the case at last came up for trial the
struggle to overthrow me was fierce. It was shown that
I was not a physician and did not pretend to diagnose
disease. My only claim was then, as it always had
been, that I had discovered the cause of all diseases and
the cure of all diseases.

Undoubtedly the reason why the attack which brought
about the above case was instituted was on account of
the reliance placed in the chemical analysis which the
physician had made and published. He did not claim
that it was absolutely correct, but his claim was that it
was so nearly correct that the variations could cause
no difference in the action of the microbe-killer. Now, I
have nothing to say against chemistry or chemists, but
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146 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

there are certain things which cannot be done by chem-
ists. It is one thing to tell approximately what a sub-
stance contains, but it is altogether another thing to
tell by a chemical analysis how the substance can be
made. A chemist, for instance, can analyze wood, but
he cannot make wood. Now, the analysis made in the
above suit may have given something of an idea of the
microbe-killer, yet the microbe-killer could not be made
according to that analysis, as was admitted during the
trial. There is abundant reason for this. In the first
place, the microbe-killer is not made of chemicals directly,
but of certain substances so treated that only the gases
remain, which, when purified, are mixed in such pro-
portions that a certain result is achieved. What sub-
stances were employed or how they were treated to pro-
duce these gases, or what the gases actually are, could
never be told by a chemical analysis. What they seem
to be would be of little use in making the microbe-
killer.

The curative and antiseptic powers of the microbe-
killer are the result of the method by which the gases are
made and of the proportions and according to the con-
ditions with which and under which they are mingled
or mixed. It is well known that certain substances or
gases in themselves possess no power, but, when mixed
in certain proportions with other gases or substances, de-
velop a wonderful power. Sulphur, saltpetre, and char-
coal separately are powerless, but combined in a certain
proportion they form gunpowder. So it is with all ex-
plosives and substances. It is simply the manner in
which they are compounded and the proportions of each
used that bring about a certain result. That the mi-
crobe-killer has a slight acid taste indicates nothing. So
do oranges and apples and all fruits. The right sub-
stances, rightly treated, and the resultant gases mingled
in correct proportions make the microbe-killer. This gas,
then passed through water, is condensed by the water,
so that several hundred volumes of gas are made to be
held in solution by one volume of water.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 147

When the question of the curative powers of the mi-
crobe-killer came up, as well as the question of its ab-
solute harmlessness even when taken in large quantities,
scores of witnesses came forward unsolicited to testify.
The judge listened to the testimony of twenty wit-
nesses and then declared it was unnecessary to admit
more testimony upon those points. In his charge to the
jury the judge referred to the microbe-killer as being
harmless to the human system and possessing remark-
able curative powers.

The jury promptly returned a verdict in my favor and
the microbe-killer was vindicated. Thus was ended a
persecution and prosecution that has never' been
equalled in this century.

The following extracts from the stenographer's min-
utes will show the character of the testimony given in
court:

New York Supreme Court, Circuit, )

May, 1893, V

Before Judge Andrews and a jury. )

William Eadam, plaintiff, sues for libel.

Dr. E. G. E., et al., defendants.

William Eadam, plaintiff, sues for libel Dr. E. G. E.
and the publishers of a drug circular. This paper pub-
lished a libellous article and a chemical analysis purport-
ing to be the constituents of Eadam's Microbe-Killer.
The article was found libellous on its face and the judge
instructed the jury to render a verdict against Dr. E.
et al., and $500 damages were given in Mr. Eadam's
favor. Most astonishing testimony was given by pa-
tients at this trial who had been cured by the M. K. of
so-called incurable diseases, and judge and jury were
convinced that the medicine made wonderful cures,
which the following extracts from the minutes of the
trial will show :

Henry I. Budd, being duly sworn, was examined by
Mr. James (counsel for plaintiff'), and testified as fol-
lows :

Q. Where do you reside ? A. Mount Holly, N. J.

148 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Q. What is your business ? A. President of the Mount
Holly &; Bedford Eailroad ; corresponding secretary of
the Burlington County Agricultural Society ; secretary
of the Burlington County Horticultural Society ; presi-
dent and general manager of the Mount Holly College
property ; and manager of several farms.

Q. Have you ever taken (William) Eadam's Microbe-
Killer as a remedy ? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What were your symptoms and conditions before
you began to take this remedy ? A. Every indication
of pulmonary disease.

Q. State what the indications were. A. Excessive
coughing and expectoration and general debility of the
system.

Q. Had you been treated by physicians ? A. Yes,
gj[p . * * * fQj, ^ number of years.

Q. Had your symptoms and condition improved or
grown worse ? A. Generally grown worse.

Q. What results did you experience from taking Rad-
am's Microbe- Killer ? A. Always beneficial.

Q. Tell me what quantity you have used yourself and
in your family. A. About twenty-five jugs of it.

Q. How is your condition now ? A. My condition is
100 per cent better. It is a common remark upon the
street that I have been saved. Everybody supposed I
was going to die of consumption.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sweezey (counsel for defend-
ants) :

Q. Do you know anything about microbes ? A. I do
not.

James 0. Corliss, being duly sworn, was examined
by Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you reside? A. Sanderson, Salem
County, N. J.

Q. What is your business or profession ? A. A min-
ister of the gospel.

Q. Did you ever use the remedy known as William
Eadam's Microbe-Killer ? A. I have.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 149

Q. At that time what were your symptoms and con-
dition ? A. Shall I state them in full ?

Q. Yes ; state them in full. (He tells a long story,
of which the following is extracted.) A. I caught a se-
vere cold, which produced catarrh, droppings of large
chunks of matter into the throat, and blow^ing out of
the nostrils large chunks. My voice became so that I
could not sing ; I could breathe only with difficulty.
•^ ^ ^ I had been treated by a physician in Trenton
and two others in Salem for a long while. Under all
that treatment I had very little relief.

Q. Can you state to the jury about what quantity of
it you used ? A. The best I can remember, about fif-
teen jugs.

Q. How does your condition since you have used the
microbe-killer compare with what it was before you
began its use ? A. My health has been very good since
the use of it.

Q. Have you experienced any injurious effects from
its use ? A. None whatever.

Mary Campbell, being duly sworn, was examined by
Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you reside ? A. At No. 144 West Forty-
third street, this city.

Q. Did you ever use William Eadam's Microbe-Killer ?
A. I have.

Q. What were your symptoms and condition at the
time you began its use ? Tell the jury. A. I was suf-
fering from indigestion, inability to eat, pains in my
Hmbs, and difficulty of breathing.

Q. Had you been under the care of physicians ? A. I
liad for at least two years.

Q. What did your physicians call your disease ?

Objected to.

Q. Won't you describe to the jury your condition and
symptoms after you had used the microbe-killer ? A.
After using it three weeks I began to feel better, my
digestion was improved, I could eat anything. The
symptoms all left me. I eat, drink, and sleep as well as

160- MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

other people do of my age. I attribute it all to the use
of Eadam's Microbe-Killer.

Q. What quantity have you used ? A. About twenty-
five jugs.

No cross-examination.

Charles H. Koberts, being duly sworn, and examined
by Mr. James, testified :

Q. Where do you reside ? A. No. 274 West 119th
street, city.

Q. Have you ever used Eadam's Microbe-Killer ? A. I
have.

Q. What were your symptoms and condition at the
time you began to use it ? A. The symptoms were sour-
ness of the stomach, bloated feeling, dizziness before the
eyes, a stopping-up feeling in the chest, and continual
dropping from the back of the nose into the throat.

Q. Ho w long have you been afflicted ? A. Ever since
I can remember — about twenty years.

Q. Had you been treated by physicians ? A. I had.

Q. And did you improve or get worse ? A. I did not
improve.

Q. Now, won't you tell the jury what your condi-
tion and symptoms were after using the microbe-killer ?
A. My symptoms were 100 per cent better. The sour-
ness of the stomach left me, the catarrh left me. I am
ever so much better.

Q. About what quantity of it have you used alto-
gether ? A. As near as I can judge, about thirty gallon,
jugs.

By defendants' counsel :

Q. You kept no account of it ? A. I did not "keep par-
ticular account.

Dyne Rolerson Granberg, being duly sworn, was ex-
amined by Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you live ? A. No. 499 Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn.

Q. What is your business ? A. A tailor.

Q. Have you ever used William Radam's Microb(>
Killer? A. Yes, sir.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 161

Q. What were your symptoms at the time you began
its use ? A. I was coughing and could not lie down in
bed since November, 1887 ; could not attend work for
eleven months. I felt pain in chest, back, and shoulder ;
could not breathe.

Q. Now, won't you tell the jury what your symptoms
and condition were after you had taken it ? A. When
I was on my second jug I commenced to walk again,
afterward gained flesh and strength, and to-day I am
just as strong as before.

Q. How many jugs have you taken altogether since
you began using it ? A. I am on the fifty -seventh jug
to-day.

Q. Any bad effects from it ? A. No, sir.

Q. Have you taken any other medicine since you be-
gan taking the Eadam Microbe-Killer ? A. No, sir.

No cross examination.

John W. Wheelock, being duly sworn, testified :

Q. Where do you reside ? xi. Brooklyn, No. 146 South
Elliott place.

Q. What is your age ? A. Sixty-seven.

Q. Have you ever taken William feadam's Microbe-
Killer ? A. I have.

Q. What were your condition and symptoms before
you took this remedy ? A. I had wind on my stomach,
sour feelings in my mouth. I could not sleep, had to
sit up in bed to breathe freely ; also catarrh.

Q. Won't you tell me for- how long a time this condi-
tion of symptoms had continued ? A. More or less ever
since twenty years.

Q. Had you been treated by different physicians ?
A. Yes.

Q. Were you improving or getting worse ? A. I was
not getting any better.

Q. How long did you use the Radam Microbe-Killer ?
A. About two years.

Q. Won't you tell to the jury what your condition
and symptoms were under the use of the microbe-killer

152 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

and after using it ? A. It relieved my stomach and ca-
tarrh. I gained from 145 to 162 pounds.

Q. How many jugs of this altogether have you used ?
A. I have taken fully thirty. My family have taken
two.

By Mr. Sweezey :

Q. Use it still ? A. Every day.

Q. What are you using it for now ? A. To keep my
spirits and health up. It is good for a healthy man, in
my opinion.

Isaac W. Barnum, being duly sworn, testified :

Q. Where do you reside ? A. No. 253 Halsej street,
Brooklyn.

Q. What is your business ? A. Have retired ; was
formerly in the sewing machine business.

Q. Have you ever used William Eadam's Microbe-
Killer ? A. I have.

Q. What were your condition and symptoms when
you began its use ? A. Had catarrh, stomach trouble,
indigestion, a stiff finger joint that was very sensitive
to the touch. I tried everything and had good physi-
cians, without getting relief ; also had rheumatism in
my knees.

Q. What became of that after you had taken the mi-
crobe-killer ? A. I have not had it since ; all is gone.

Q. What quantity have you used of it already ? A. My-
self and wife — my wife also had the eczema very
bad —

Objected to.

Q. Tell how her limb was. A. Her limb was frightful
to look at. It was so that the eczema exuded from the
sore on it. She was cured of it entirely. She has none
of it since.

Q. For how long a time ? A. She took it for about
one year. We have used between us over twenty jugs.
I have not taken any for six months ; had no occasion
to take it. I call myself a pretty healthy man.

Q. What is your age ? A. Sixty-eight.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

PLATE XX.

77. PROTEUS ZENKERI.

(PUTREFACTION.)

X 1500. Photomicrograph by?Wm. Radam.

78. SPIRILLUM CONCENTRICUM.

(IN PUTREFYING BLOOD— SHOWING FLAGELI.A.)

X 2500, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

79. BACILLUS CUMCULICIDA
HAVANIENSIS.

(FOUND IN YELLOW-FEVER CADAVERS.)

X 2500.

Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

80. BACILLUS CAYICIDA (Brieger's).

(FROM HUMAN F^CES.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 153

Q. People sometimes recover from indigestion without
taking any medicine ? A. I think we all take too much
medicine.

Q. You say you got the Hking for it and felt exhila-
rated ? A. I think it is a good tonic. I think it purifies
the blood. I regard it as a good medicine, a good rem-
edy.

Eichard Hartley, being duly sworn, was examined by
Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you reside 1 A. No. 223 West 104:th
street, New York City.

Q. What is your profession or occupation ? A. Min-
ister of the gospel.

Q. Of what denomination ? A. Baptist Church.

Q. Where are you officiating? A. In the Baptist
church corner of 104th street and the Boulevard.

Q. Have you ever used William Eadam's Microbe-
Killer ? A. I have.

Q. What were your symptoms and condition at the
time you began to use this remedy ? A. I used it for a
very severe chronic case of catarrh of twenty years'
standing. Also bronchial trouble ; contraction of se-
vere cold would affect the throat seriously.

Q. Had you been doctoring with physicians for these
ailments? A. Yes, sir; for fifteen years. Their treat-
ment had no effect.

Q. About how many jars have you used altogether ?
A. About sixteen altogether.

Q. What are your symptoms now ? A. Very much
better. Almost entirely reheved.

Q. Have you ever experienced any injurious effects
from its use ? A. Never.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. How many pints are in a quart ? A. Two.

Q. How many quarts in a gallon ? A. Four.

Q. How many wineglassfuls would you have in a gal-
lon jug ? A. I never stopped to calculate it.

George W. N. Yost, being duly sworn, was examined
by Mr. James, and testified as follows :

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164 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

Q. Where do you reside ? A. In this city, No. 30^
West Fifty-fourth street.

Q. What is your business ? A. I am an inventor and
manufacturer of writing machines.

Q. Are you the inventor of the Yost typewriting ma-
chine ? A. I am at least one of them.

Q. Have you ever used WilHam Eadam's Microbe-
Killer? A. I have.

Q. What were your symptoms and condition of your
health at the time ? A. I had dyspepsia very bad. I
had the most terrific headaches, lasting from one to
three days, and then I had a good deal of catarrh
trouble.

Q. How long have you been suffering from those dif-
ficulties ? A. About ten or twelve years.

Q. Had different physicians ? A. I had.

Q. Did you get any better under medical treatment t
A. Well, at times I think my stomach trouble, head-
ache, and catarrh increased.

Q. How long did you use Radam's Microbe-Killer ?
A. Almost continually for a year and a half.

Q. Now, won't you describe to the jury your symp-
toms, condition, and progress under this treatment ? A.
Well, I can only say generally that the longer I used it
the better my health was, until a few months ago I got
feeling so well that I did not use it at all.

Q. About how many jars or jugs of this microbe-killer
have you used altogether ? A. Somewhere between
twenty-five and thirty- five; I cannot tell exactly, for the
reason that other members of the family kept using it
occasionally.

Q. Have you ever experienced any injurious effects
from it ? A. Certainly not.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Was not the cause of your sickness from over-
work? A. Hardly; because I had been sick for a good
many years before that.

Q. Do you regard yourself at the present time as com-
pletely cured and as sound and well ? A. I do.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 155

Q. Are you a physician ? A. No, sir.

Q. At whose request did you come here to testify ?
A. A court officer subpoenaed me.

Paul Stout, being duly sworn, was examined by Mr.
James, and testified as follows :

Q. Were* do you reside ? A. Brooklyn.

Q. What is your business? A. Collector and real
estate agent.

Q. What is your age ? A. Seventy-five last March.

Q. Have you ever taken Kadam's Microbe-Killer ?
A. Yes, sir.

Q. What was your health and condition when you
began its use ? A. Catarrh of the head and stomach and
other stomach difficulties.

Q. Of how long standing ? A. Several years.

Q. Had been under medical treatment ? A. Yes, sir.

Q. Did your condition under medical treatment im-
prove ? A. It did not last long.

Q. How long did you take Eadam's Microbe-Killer
continually ? A. About two years.

Q. Now, won't you tell the jury what were your
symptoms and condition before taking the microbe killer
and after its use ? A. The catarrh got down my throat
at nights that so I could hardly breathe. After using the
microbe killer it helped me, and I kept on using it in
order to get cured of it. I have not been bothered any
more with it. I could not eat rice pudding or pastry
food. Now I can eat anything.

Q. About what quantity have you taken altogether ?
A. About fifteen jugs.

Q. Have you ever experienced any injurious effects
from it ? A. Not at all. I should say one thing. I
have a daughter that had sick headache for eighteen
years. She had three doctors and paid out $200. It
never helped her. She took the microbe-killer and has
not had a headache in three years.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Have you ever taken any patent medicine before ?
A. Yes, I think I did take some.

156 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Q. You have taken a good many patent medicines ?
A. No, I did not take a good many.

Q. You are quite a hand at taking medicine, are you
not ? A. No, I ain't.

Q. Why did you take the microbe- killer ? A. I took
it because I wanted to get rid of this catarrh.

George K. L. Klee, being duly sworn, was examined
by Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you live ? A. New York City.

Q. About what is your age ? A. Between sixty-six and
sixty-seven.

Q. Did you ever take Radam's Microbe-Killer ? A. I did.

Q. Tell the jury your condition of health when you
began taking it. A. My condition of health was very bad
when I took it. I was not able to go half a block, and
I was not able to lie down at all. I was full of phlegm
and felt stopped up. I had several doctors, but they did
me no good. I had pneumonia before, and a touch of
asthma. The doctor said I could not live and no medi-
cine would cure me. By the first gallon of microbe-
killer I had relief, as I took four I could go about, and
after using it a year I was relieved of all my trouble, and
have since gained twenty-five pounds in weight.

A. You are first-rate now, are you not ? A. Yes, sir,
free of everything.

Q. Breathe easy, sleep well, eat well ? A. I bet you.

Q. How many gallons did you use altogether ? A.
About thirty gallons. I used twenty ; my family uses
it too.

Q. Have you ever felt any bad effects from it. A. No,
sir.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Do you say at the time you were sick the doc-
tor told you you must not continue in your business ?
A. Yes.

Q. The doctor thought rest would have some effect ?
A. The doctors think a good deal.

Q. You followed the doctor's advice to stop, did you
not ? A. I followed, only I took the microbe-killer.

I

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 15t

Annie Miller, being duly sworn, testified :

Q. Where do you live ? A. Brooklyn, No. 80 Wil-
loughby street.

Q. Have you ever taken Radam's Microbe-Killer ? A. I
have.

Q. Won't you tell the jury what your condition of
health was and your symptoms at the time you began to
use this remedy ? A. Well, it was a catarrhal condi-
tion, weak and miserable, suffering continually, and no
remedy could break it up. I had catarrhal cold in throat
and head.

Q. Did you ever consult doctors ? A. I did.

Q. And did they do any good ? A. No, sir.

Q. Tell the jury your condition and symptoms while
using this remedy. A. At first I did not feel well ; I
felt worse. I had a pain in my stomach and pain in my
back, and very weak ; but in a short time those symp-
toms disappeared and I began to get flesh, felt stronger,
had a better color, and was, indeed, a new person, to the
astonishment of all my friends.

Q. What quantity have you used altogether? A.
From thirty to thirty- five gallons.

Q. Have you ever experienced any bad or injurious
effects from it ? A. I have not.

Eudolph F. Voelkel, being duly sworn, testified :

Q. Where do you five ? A. At No. 403 West Forty*
ninth street now.

Q. What is your business ? A. A theatrical manager
and advance agent.

Q. Have you ever taken Eadam's Microbe-Killer?
A. I have.

Q. Now, won't you tell the jury what your condition
and symptoms were before using Radam's Microbe-
Killer ? A. I had twenty-three ulcers on this leg and
they were very painful.

Q. Were you treated by physicians ? A. By several
physicians.

Q. Where ? A. At Charleston, New Orleans, St. Louis,
and Potosi.

158 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Q. Did your condition improve or get worse ? A. It
got worse.

Q. What did you do then ? A. I was induced by a
man to try the microbe -killer, and I used it according
to direction.

Q. In about what quantity per day ? A. I just poured
it on my leg, and drank it, too ; and it cured my leg.

Q. Been well ever since ? A. Very well indeed.

Q. How many jugs did you use ? A. About twelve
jugs ; four internally and eight externally.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Do you know how you contracted the disease ? A.
By a kick from a horse on my shin.

Q. Have you been treated by any physician since ?
A. No.

Q. You were cured ? A. Yes.

Fred Lindholm, being duly sworn, was examined by
Mr. James, and testified :

Q. Where do you reside ? A. No. 438 West Thirty-
second street.

Q. Have you ever used Kadam's Microbe-Killer ? A.
Yes, I used it over a year.

Q. What were your condition and symptoms at the
time you began to use it ? A. I had consumption.

Objected to.

Q. Tell how you felt. A. Three years ago I com-
menced to cough and spit blood. Then I went to Dr. G.,
and he examined me twice and said my left lung was
affected, and he gave me what he called a pulmonary
tonic. I kept on with him for about six months, and
was getting worse all the time. I could not walk two
stairs up. Then my cousin recommended me to take the
microbe-killer. I took it ; it cured me, and I have not
been sick since.

Q. How much did you take during the year ? A.
Twenty-four jugs.

Q. Did you have two children who were sick ? A. Yes.

Q. How old are they ? A. One is three years and six
months, the other two years and six months.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 159

Q. How sick were they ? A. One was sick for three
weeks ; we thought she was going to die.

Q. Did the children take the microbe-killer ? A. Yes,
and it cured them.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. They had a severe attack of measles, did they not ?
A. One was stopped and the other commenced.

Q. They were both pretty sick ? A. Yes.

Emma Woodward, being duly sworn, was examined
by Mr. James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you live ? A. No. 215 East Fourteenth
street.

Q. Have you ever used Radam's Microbe-Killer ? A. I
have.

Q. What was your condition of health and symptoms
before you began its use ? A. I was a complete invalid,
unable to rise from my bed without help or to walk
across the room without help. I was suffering from a
complication of trouble during the years before. The
first was a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism
twelve years, which left me in a very weak condition.
The slightest chill or cold I would have a serious attack
of inflammatory rheumatism, which "would lay me up in
bed for several weeks or months. While in this weak
condition I had pneumonia and the grip, that made me
partially blind. I had not been able to help myself
without an attendant for about nine months.

Q. During these years of suffering had you had medi-
cal treatment ? A. Yes, from a great many physi-
cians.

Q. Tell " the jury about the change of your condition
under the use of Eadam's Microbe-Killer. A. The first
symptom of relief I found I was able to eat. I had not
been able to digest food or care for any food for years.
I had an appetite and could eat my meals without any
injurious feeling in my stomach. Three months after
taking it I had no more trouble with rheumatism. I
recovered my eyesight after nine months and could go
about without wearing glasses. I have been improving

160 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

and still improve. I am getting more strength and able
to attend to my duties.

Q. Have you used any other remedy during this time
than the microbe-killer ? A. No, sir.

Q. Have you experienced any injurious effect from it ?
A. Not to my knowledge.

Q. How many gallons have you used altogether since
you commenced on the 22d of September, 1890? A. I
have an account of one hundred and sixty-two jugs, but
I have taken somewhere between one hundred and sixty-
two jugs and two hundred jugs.

Q. Then you have taken it to saturation ? A. I have,
inwardly and outwardly. I have bathed with it and
drank it freely. I have used half a gallon in one night's
time.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Internally and externally you used it ? A. Yes,
sir.

Q. Has the greater part of the contents of these jugs
been used internally ? A. Yes, sir. I have used forty-
two jugs of the strongest grade, No. 3, internally.

Mary Ewers, being duly sworn, was examined by Mr.
James, and testified as follows :

Q. Where do you live ? A. No. 242 Wyckoff street,
Brooklyn.

Q. Have you ever taken Wm. Radam's Microbe-Killer ?
A. Yes, sir ; I have.

Q. What was your condition ? A. I had a cancer.

Objected to by defendants' counsel.

Q. Was it an external cancer ?

Objected again.

Q. Tell the jury what it was you had, without giving a
name to it ; just what was the appearance as it looked
to you. You saw something on your right breast, did
you not ? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What was it you saw; how did it look ? A. It was
a hard lump ; it was a cancer.

Objected to.

Q. Just describe it. Tell what its appearance was.

81. BACILLUS MALLEI.

(ROTZBACILLUS— GLANDERS .)

2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

83. BACILLUS OF TEXAS FEVER

(Billings).

(RINDERSEUCHE — CATTLE PLAGUE.)

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84. BACILLUS D. DEUTSCHEN
SCHWEINESEUCHE.

(SWINE PLAGUE.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph'iby Wm. Kadam.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 161

whether it looked inflamed. A. It was a large lump,
hardening every day, and grew blue.

Q. How did it feel? A. It felt painful — stitching
pains.

Q. How long had you been suffering from it ? A. T
had not been suffering from that very long, but the
other side was taken off by a doctor.

Q. Do you mean he made an operation on it ? A. He
applied plasters, and took away the breast and cancer.

Q. And that part got well ? A. It had not got well.
It had not healed when I felt trouble in the other breast,
and I called upon the doctor and he said he was sorry.

Q. Were you suffering in any way except from these
difficulties? A. Asthma.

Q. Then you took Radam's Microbe-Killer ? A. Yes,
sir.

Q. What did you observe, after you took the medicine,
with regard to any change in your condition ? A. My
health got better, my appetite came back, my strength
got better, asthma left me, the cancer got smaller and
smaller and then disappeared, and now I do my work
again.

Q. About what quantity of it have you used alto-
gether? A. About sixteen jugs.

Q. Did you ever experience any bad effects from it ?
A. No bad effects.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. Who was the physician who treated you ? A.
Dr. C.

Q. In Brooklyn ? A. Yes.

Q. And you consider yourself as a person in robust
health ? A. Well, I am not strong. I keep the microbe-
killer in the house and use it as a family medicine.

Charles Henry Reese, being duly sworn, was exam-
ined and testified:

Q. Where do you live ? At No. 10 Downing street,
this city.

Q. Have you ever used Radam's Microbe-Killer ? A.
Yes, sir.

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162 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

Q. What was your condition before you began its use ?
A. I had been suffering from chronic catarrh a number
of years. I had doctored and changed doctors in this
city, but none did me any good ; in fact my case grew
worse all the time, until I read in the paper about Ead-
am's Microbe-Killer, and decided to try it. The very
first jug I bought did me more good than all the doctors
I went to, and I kept on using it continually, according
to how I felt.

Q. What has become of your catarrh? A. Well, I
am not troubled to any extent now, and I am by far a
thousand per cent better than I was ; there is a com-
plete change in my health.

Q. About what quantity have you taken altogether ?
A. I cannot definitely say, though the Microbe-Killer
Company's books might show it. I have certainly taken
about one hundred and twenty-five gallons of it.

Q. And you have taken it to saturation, have you not ?
A. I have taken just three-quarters of it inwardly,
while one-quarter I have snuffed up my nose and gargled
my throat with it.

Q. Have you experienced any injurious effects from
it ? A. No, sir.

Q. Were you a singer at any time ? A. I was, and
had considerable singing to do.

Q. Did this catarrh affect your voice ? A. It did.
That was the main reason why I wanted to take the
microbe killer.

Q. Have you got so that you can sing again ? A. Yes,
sir.

Cross-examined by defendants' counsel :

Q. You say you are a singer. Do you sing in church
ny where ? A. No, sir.

Q. Do you ever sing in church ? A. I have, with a
quartet.

Gu stave Becker, being duly sworn, was examined and
testified as follows :

Q. Where do you live? A. 1348 Lexington avenue.

Q. What is your business ? A. Music teacher.

IMITATIONS AND PERSECUTIONS. 163

Q. Did you ever use William Eadam's Microbe-Killer ?
A. Yes, sir.

Q. Tell the jury what your condition was before you
began to use it. A. I was suffering very much from ca-
tarrh, general nervousness, dyspepsia, a sour stomach.
Could not sleep. Had also the grip ; it attacked my
lungs. Had gastric fever, could not digest any food, not
even oatmeal gruel, and the doctors were afraid I would
not pull through. Then I began using the microbe-killer.
I began to increase in weight, and felt stronger in a
short time after using it. The discharges from my nose
and from my throat began to lessen, my voice became
clearer, I thought singing also. The pains in the chest
disappeared, and now I eat anything. Whenever I feel
bad I use the microbe-killer. It is a good tonic.

Q. And you got rid of these difficulties ? A. Yes, sir.

Q. What quantity have you used ? A. About thirty
jugs.

Q. Have you ever experienced any bad effects from it ?
A. No, sir.

No cross-examination.

Twenty-four more witnesses were ready to show their
wonderful and satisfactory cures, but the Court was
satisfied with those previously examined. It proved
that Radam's Microbe-Killer cures every disease, regard-
less of symptoms or name, as patients were cured with-
out diagnosing— in fact, without seeing them at all.
My claim that fermentation and microbes are the cause
of every disease is proven by the above indisputable tes-
timony, most complimentary to my discovery and to my
most indefatigable microscopic researches.

164

MICROBES AND THE MICKOBE-KILLER.

CHAPTER XVII.
A newspaper's investigation of the microbe-killer.

Since my discovery has been given to the world the
newspapers have published many articles concerning it.
As a microbe scientist my opinions were often sought
by newspaper reporters, especially when contagious dis-
eases were prevalent. Undoubtedly the most thorough
and complete article concerning the microbe-killer was
published by the New York Daily Press on April 8th,
1894. One of that enterprising paper's skilled reporters
was detailed to make an exhaustive investigation of the
microbe-killer, with instructions to spare no pains or ex-
pense in the completion of his task. The reporter con-
versed with many people who had taken the microbe-
killer, and then he passed a week in my laboratory ex-
amining microbes under powerful microscopes and ex-
perimenting upon them with the microbe-killer. Not
until long afterward did I learn that during his week in
my laboratory, notwithstanding the fact that he was in
perfect health, the reporter had actually drunk a gallon
of the microbe-killer in order to ascertain for his news-
paper whether the gas-impregnated water produced in-
jurious effects.

The result of the reporter's investigations was pub-
lished in a page article illustrated with pictures of
twenty different microbes he had seen. The illustra-
tions are necessarily omitted here, but the article is
given entire :

166 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE- KILLER.

WTiat to do for Microbes — A Texas Florist Discovered

what Scientists Could Not — Disease is Fermentation —

Microbes the Cause, and to Cure all Diseases you .

Must Kill the Germs — Badam Bivals Pasteur —

An Antiseptic Gas Harmless to Life, but

Death to Microbes, discovered amid

Flowers — The Gas Saved the Life of

the Invento! — Now it is Saving

the Lives of Thousands.

A singularity of many great inventions and discover-
ies is that they were brought about by men who were
least suspected of being able to solve the problems in-
volved. Where a thorough understanding of mechan-
ics was necessary, often the man unfamiliar with me-
chanical principles stepped in and did what others could
not. Where a carefully grounded knowledge of science
was deemed indispensable, the man who knew nothing
about science became the enlightener of the scientific
world. Instead of the professor it has generally been
the student under him who has originated new combi-
nations and applied new principles. The inventor of
the steamboat was neither a sailor nor a mechanic. A
priest discovered smokeless gunpowder. An apprentice
first made dynamite. Edison had as competitors men
who knew a thousand times more about electricity than
he did, and yet he accomplished scores of things they
could not.

There is an easy solution to this apparent mystery
regarding the origin of inventions and discoveries. In
every branch of industry there is a deep rut. Once a
man falls into that rut he seldom gets out. The ten-
dency is always to do things as others did them. Had
Edison attended college, and had he been taught elec-
tricity by a college professor, he would undoubtedly to-
day be caring for some small electric lighting plant,
while the phonograph, the duplex telegraph, the stock
ticker, and the kinetograph would still be visions and
impossibilities. A prominent manufacturer of New

A newspaper's investigation. 167

York City said recently that during the forty years he
had been in business 275 inventions had been made in
his factories. Of that number only six had been made
by men who were thoroughly acquainted with the busi-
ness. The others were brought about by young men
working upon small salaries and by apprentices. The
man with the thorough knowledge of the work had
gone on doing it as his teachers had done. The appren-
tice, the young man who knew nothing compared with
others, searched for an easier and better way, and thus
reached success. Until then he was called a ^^green-
horn." From that moment, in the estimation of others
and in history, he became a master.

There have been fewer strides taken in the field of
medicine, probably, than in any other branch of science.
The man who dared to disclose a new theory was cowed
into silence by other physicians. Years ago, when Har-
vey dared to announce that the blood circulated through
the whole body, he was set upon by a mob. Like Gali-
leo, he remained firm. ^^ It does circulate, for all that,"
was what he said to those who cursed him.

Why did the physicians of Harvey's time denounce
him for proving that the blood circulated through the
whole body ? Simply because that discovery showed
that they were ignoramuses and had never known how
to care for life. If Harvey had discovered a new use for
pilocarpine, or a new anaesthetic, or even an antidote for
some poison, instead of being persecuted he would have
been congratulated by the medical profession of his
day. They could stand a slight advancement, but to
have it proven to them that they had, through gross ig-
norance, treated their patients in such a manner that
life was impossible, was too much.

What Harvey did in his time has since been outdone
by another man. He dared go further than physi-
cians and medical scientists dreamed of going. Alone
he dared advance a new theory, a new system, and fight
the abuse and oppression which met him from those
who ought to have been the ones to welcome it most.

16S MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER,

Seven years ago he began the warfare with ideas and
principles which electrified the whole world. He could
not then argue like his opponents, but he accomplished
results which proved what arguments could never prove.
For seven years these results have been accumulating,
until to-day there are one million people who believe in
him, trust in him, and bless him for his discovery.
This man is William Kadam, the inventor and discoverer
of JRadam's Microbe-Killer.

It is easy enough to laugh at a new discovery. At
first men laughed at the telegraph, the cable, and the tele-
phone, and called them pretty toys. They don't laugh
any more. It is easy enough to laugh at a man who says
he can cure all diseases with a single medicine, but what
are you going to do when he proves his assertion ?

The intelligent man, when confronted with something
new, listens carefully to both sides, hears all the argu-
ments, and then comes to a decision. The foolish person
does not. Any person who will read this article care-
fully will learn several things he had never imagined
possible, and if he is fair in his judgment he will say
that the name of William Radam ought to be in every
book of history and upon the lips of every schoolboy.

There is a pretty romance of facts concerning this
wonderful discovery, unequalled in fiction. Twenty-five
years ago William Radam, a young man, then twenty-
five years old, landed in New York. He was a German
and had been in the employ of Emperor William in the
Imperial Gardens in Bellevue. There he had learned how
to care for flowers and trees. He never expected to
enter any other business, because among flowers and
trees he was happy — they were his children. From
New York Mr. Radam went South, and with his im-
perial recommendations secured a position as gardener at
the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. Here he remained
two years. During that time he contracted malarial
fever and was compelled to give up his position.

Texas was then described as a good section for an in-
valid. Thither Mr. Radam went, and in Austin, Tex.,

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(ST ARKRAMPF— LOCK-JAW.) (HOG ERYSIPELAS.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam. x 3500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

87. BACILLUS TYPHI MURIUM. 88. BACILLUS CAPSULATUS (PfeiflFer).

(MICE DISEASE.) (IN GUINEA-PIGS.)

X 3500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam. x 3500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

A newspaper's investigation. 169

he purchased a tract of land and began the culture of
flowers and trees. In a business way he was successful.
The trees he planted and cultivated were shipped to
California, Arizona, Lower California, Mexico, and
other Western States andTerritories, where they stand as
monuments of his industry. The tract of land he ori-
ginally bought was irrigated and became like a garden.
By this time Mr. Radam was wealthy. He was one of
the leading florists and nurserymen of the great West,
and his name was known throughout the East, where
he was recognized for his skill in buying seeds and
plants for his nursery. But a shadow rested upon Mr.
Radam. He could see his bank deposits increasing
daily, but he could also feel his health leaving, his mus-
cles weakening. To the original attack of malaria had
been added rheumatism, then catarrh, and finally the
dreaded consumption. For seventeen years he had em-
ployed physicians. Perhaps they slightly retarded his
diseases, perhaps they accelerated them. At any rate,
Mr. Radam found himself seven years ago on the thresh-
old of death. With feeble steps he could still wander
among the flowers he loved, but he knew that he could
only live a short time. Yet in this condition he was on
the verge of a great discovery.

In his long career as a florist Mr. Radam's great suc-
cess had been brought about by his ability in preserving
his plants from disease. When a plant or stalk began
to look sickly he looked for some cause and always
found it. His discoveries in this line were worth record-
ing in science.

There are many fungi or plant microbes in the green-
house. Every gardener knows that. Some kinds are so
numerous that they can be seen in little bunches upon
the sides of plants or upon the ground around them.
There is a sickness of the rose called the black rust, the
symptoms of which are black spots on the leaves, and
these spots grow larger and larger until the whole leaf
turns black. This is the second stage. The third stage
soon follows, in which the leaves turn yellow and finally
drop off.

170 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

This rust is contagious, and the spores or seeds from
the fungus infect all other roses in the vicinity, just the
same as persons with the cholera or small pox infect
others by proximity. The fungus of the cutting bench
resembles in appearance a spider web, and, if left undis-
turbed, grows and covers about one square foot of sur-
face in six days, and every cutting which stands within
reach of it is affected and dies. Another thing Mr.
Eadam discovered about plants which was of use tq
him afterward was that the plants were affected by
changes of weather. In warm, damp weather his little
seedlings were in more danger than on bright, sunny
days. After some changes of weather, especially after
sunshine followed by rain, he noticed that on the leaves
of plants, which were healthy-looking before, tiny little
spots grew, and, when the wind blew, covered the
whole surface with a kind of rusty-looking smoke. On
other plants a different species could be seen, showing
that different plants were affected by different dis-
eases.

Mr. Eadam early decided that the fungi on plants
were nothing more than microbes, and the reason for
different plants being differently affected was that they
were affected by different kinds of microbes. There
was nothing new in this theory, although Mr. Eadam
discovered it himself and did not read it in text books
on botany.

He tried to save his plants by cutting off the fungi,
but soon found out that this treatment had no perma-
nent effect. The fungi grew out again, generally in the
same place, but often in many other places. This led
him to the additional discovery that the little fungi or
microbes were actually in the sap of the plants, and
that unless the sap was purified the condition would
remain the same. He tried many ways of treating the
roots of his affected plants. Occasionally he was suc-
cessful, as some species of microbes yielded to his appli-
cation of antiseptics to the roots. But his efforts, on
the whole, were a failure, and he found that the safest

A newspaper's investigation. 171

way was to remove the infected plants, so as to save the
healthy plants.

It took Mr. Eadam only another step to discover that,
in reality, the various kinds of microbes had a similar
effect upon plants — that is, they attacked the plant and
caused fermentation. The rust on the rose leaves, he
found, was nothing but fermentation, the result of the
action of microbes. The rotting away of the wood of
plants was fermentation. He applied the theory to
other things with equal success.

Mr. Radam also noticed that plants inherit the seeds
of the microbes. On many occasions he preserved the
seeds of a yellow-looking arbor vitae that was sickly, and
sowed them. The result was a growth of sickly- looking
yellow plants, which either soon died or never amounted
to anything. The blight of the pear tree he transferred
by budding to healthy trees. In a short time those
trees were affected by the blight. The bacteria which
he transferred from a yellow-looking tree to a healthy
one inoculated it so that it soon became yellow. These
discoveries were of inestimable value to him after-
ward.

Early in his career as a gardener Mr. Eadam sought
means to kill the microbes or bacteria which affected
his plants. Thousands of experiments were made. He
tried various alkalies and acids, tobacco smoke, and
borax. None of them worked successfully. If he suc-
ceeded in arresting the progress of disease in his plants
he had to apply something so strong that the plants died
from the effects of the remedy.

As the years rolled on he continued his investigations.
One day there came to him a happy thought. He had
already discovered that all the diseases of plants were
caused by microbes, or bacteria. Their action produced
fermentation. Without fermentation there could be no
disease. As the coral reef is the tomb of myriads of
tiny insects, so he found that in fermentation, which
they caused, the microbes lived, propagated, and died.
Fermentation was their result. If he could at once ar-

172 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

rest fermentation, it would signify that the microbes
had all been killed. Upon these lines Mr. Eadam pur-
sued his investigations. To arrest fermentation he
found antiseptics were necessary. He tried all the
known antiseptics and they failed, for if they killed the
microbes and thus arrested fermentation they also
killed the plants. Tobacco smoke, he found, was of use
only temporarily. He burned other substances in the
greenhouse and watched the results. Some results
benefited the plants, and others did not. One day Mr.
Radam noticed that during certain of these experiments
he felt in better health. In fact he found himself a sort
of barometer to tell the condition of his affected plants.
If he felt in good spirits after an experiment with cer-
tain gases, he noticed that his plants looked better. He
attributed this at first to his mental pre- occupation. One
day, after settling with his physicians and being told
that he had better put his business affairs in shape, so
others could carry on his business in case of his death,
Mr. Radam walked through his greenhouses and gazed
sorrowfully at the plants he must soon leave forever.
He came to some diseased plants and paused. Suddenly
the thought struck him that what was true with plants
might be true with man — that diseases in man were
caused by microbes, as diseases were caused in plants.
From that moment he was a changed man. He said to
himself that if he could find some antiseptic that would
destroy the microbes in his system he might get well.
This was the way he reasoned : If there were microbes
in his system which caused his diseases, then there must
be fermentation. It took but a moment to convince him
that what his lungs threw off was nothing but fermen-
tation. Then, if he could but arrest this fermentation,
it would signify that he had killed the microbes which
caused the fermentation.

But the question to consider was how he could do this
without killing himself as well. Alcohol, he knew, was
a powerful antiseptic, but if he took enough to kill the
microbes and arrest fermentation he would have to lite-
rally soak himself in alcohol. Then, again, if he used

A newspaper's investigation. 17^

carbolic acid weak enough to be taken with impunity, it
would have no effect upon the microbes. If he could
only get an antiseptic gas, he said to himself, which was
powerful enough to kill the microbes and still not power-
ful enough to injure him, then he might yet recover.

Up to this time Mr. Eadam had never read a medical
book, and he knew nothing about chemicals except those
he had used in his greenhouse experiments. Seven
years ago a few of the bolder physicians had declared
that certain diseases were caused by microbes, but the
public did not believe them, and as a matter of fact those
physicians were not certain of their claims themselves.
But Mr. Eadam had never heard of their discoveries or
pretended discoveries. He had worked the theory out
himself, reasoning that if Nature had affected plants
with microbes, why should she not also affect human be-
ings with microbes ?

To the drug stores Mr. Eadam went and bought all
the antiseptics he could. He was not a medical man,
but he knew that it was unsafe to play foolishly with
chemicals. In other words, he did not dare experiment
upon himself.

One day Mr. Eadam felt convinced that if the medi-
cine his doctors were prescribing for him did not stop
fermentation outside of the human body, it was not
possible for it to stop the fermentation inside.

Consequently he placed some fermentation which his
own lungs had thrown off in his doctor's medicine and
corked it up. In a few days the fermentation increased,
which conclusively proved that the microbes not only
lived but propagated in the medicine which was expected
to cure his disease. From that day he has not used a
drop of medicine outside of his microbe-killer.

With the antiseptics he purchased Mr. Eadam experi-
mented upon raw meat. None of them came up to the
requirements he exacted. If they preserved the meat
they injured it. Substances which would not injure the
meat were too weak to prevent decay. Then Mr. Eadam
began compounding these antiseptics with other drugs.
His experiments were not successful. He continued,

174 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

however, UDtil he had experimented with all the drugs
obtainable in the drug stores of his city. Still he was
unsuccessful. It was then that Mr. Kadam resorted to
gases. None of the known gases produced the desired
results. For days and nights Mr. Eadam worked. His
friends thought he was wasting his time, but, as they
knew he had only a short time to live, they humored him.
Like Ponce de Leon in his search for the spring of life,
Mr, Eadam was seeking something which would give
him life. It was always before his eyes, but like the
will-o'-the-wisp it eluded his grasp and mocked him.
Day after day the desired something seemed within his
reach. He closed his fingers upon it, but it was not
there. With his bits of fresh meat and his gases he
worked day after day, then went to bed only to dream
he had found what he was looking for.

One day Mr. Kadam mixed a combination of gases,
some obtained by chemical extraction and others ob-
tained by burning certain drugs, and placed the result
in a glass can with a piece of fresh meat. The next
morning the meat looked fresher than did the results of
his other experiments. This encouraged him and he
left it several days. Soon the meat began to ferment,
but Mr. Eadam knew he was on the right track. If he
€Ould only make the gas stronger, then he would have
accomplished the results desired, and the fresh meat
would keep forever. Under pressure he passed a quan-
tity of this gas through water. He found that the water
absorbed eight hundred times its own volume of the gas.
That is, one cubic inch of water would absorb eight
hundred cubic inches of gas. This gave him just eight
hundred times as powerful an agent with which to con-
duct his experiments. Into a bottle containing some of
this impregnated gas Mr. Eadam placed a piece of fresh
meat. After leaving it there three weeks he took it out.
Every cell in the meat was as perfect as when he had
placed it in the impregnated gas. He ate the meat and
felt no evil effects. Then he began taking internally
some of the impregnated water. Within a few days he

A newspaper's investigation. 1Y5

felt better. The lungs began throwing off large quan-
tities of fermentation, the rheumatism was less severe,
and in fact Mr. Radam felt better than he had in years.
He continued taking the gas-water, as he called it, and
within four months the discharges from his lungs had
ceased and he had gained ten pounds in weight, to say
nothing of the improvement in his general condition.

To cut a long story short, within a year Mr. Radam
had completely recovered his health and his weight had
increased from one hundred and forty-four to two
hundred and seven pounds. He was then partially bald.
The thought came to him to apply the water-gas ex-
ternally to his head. In a short time a slight fuzz began
to cover his head, and within a year he had a moderately
thick head of hair.

Mr. Radam had noticed that different plants had been
differently affected by the substances he had tried upon
them. Therefore he was not certain whether the means
that had cured him would cure any one else or not. He
had no intention of giving up the florist business to
engage in selling medicines, and he looked upon his dis-
covery only as what had been the means of restoring
him to health. In spite of this, however, there grew
upon him the desire to know what effect the medicine
would have upon others. If he had made no mistake in
his theory, all diseases were caused by microbes, and in
order to prevent fermentation, which is really disease
itself caused by microbes, an antiseptic was needed
powerful enough to destroy the microbes without injur-
ing the person taking the medicine. He could prevent
fermentation, as already shown by his experiments with
the pieces of fresh meat. By the use of his gas-impreg-
nated water he had arrested fermentation in his own
body and cured himself, when he had been told by his
physicians that he had only a short time at the most to
live. Would his discovery work as successfully with
other people as it had with him ? Would it kill the
microbes which probably caused other diseases as w^ell
as the microbes w^hich caused his particular diseases?

1Y6 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

These questions bothered Mr. Eadam. Day after day
he longed to know how valuable and far-reaching was
his new compound of concentrated gases.

He determined to try the medicine, if possible, upon
some person affected with disease. The laws of Texas
were then, as they are now, very strict regarding the
practice of medicine. If he gave the medicine to a sick
person, and instead of recovering that person died, then
he would be liable for murder. Again, if he prescribed
the medicine for any one he would be attacked by the
physicians, no matter whether it cured the patient or
not. As he had absolutely nothing to gain except to
satisfy his curiosity, Mr. Radam bided his time.

A short distance from where he lived a young man
was dying with consumption. A few months previous
three members of the same family had died of con-
sumption, and the death of the young man in question
was supposed to be a matter of only a few weeks.

This young man visited Mr. Radam one day and asked
him how he had been cured. Mr. Radam told him that
was a secret of his own. ^' But," said he, 'Hhe medi-
cine that cured me is in that little jug. It is pleasant
to take, it is absolutely harmless, and I believe it will
cure you of your consumption, and that it will also cure
any disease that man is heir to. I can't give you any of
the medicine, nor can I sell it to you. But I am going
out of the room for a moment, and if you should steal
that jug of gas-impregnated water I should never make
any trouble about it. The law does not allow me to
prescribe it nor induce people to take it, but if you
should steal it and take it yourself according to direc-
tions, three or four wineglassfuls a day, then if you
should be killed by it no one would be to blame but your-
self."

Then Mr. Radam went out of the room. When he re-
turned a few minutes later the young consumptive was
gone and so was the jug.

Within a week there was a decided improvement in
the condition of the young man who had stolen the medi-

PLATE XXIII.

89. BACILLUS DER MEUSEEUCHE

(Laser).

(MOUSE SEPTICEMIA.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

90. BACILLUS SUBTILIS (Ehrenberg).

(HAY BACILLUS.)

X 10(X). Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

91. BACILLUS OF GROUSE DISEASE
(Klein).

X 2600, Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

92. BACILLUS DER FRETTCHEN-
SEUCHE (Eberth).

(FERRET DISEASE.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

A newspaper's investigation. 1Y7

cine. His appetite was better and there was less fer-
mentation in the lungs. In a few months he was prac-
tically well, and is alive and in good health to-day. His.
appreciation of the medicine was so great that he came
to Mr. Radam and told him of a woman relative of his
who was suffering from cancer of the breast. Again
Mr. Radam told him he dare not prescribe the medicine,
but he was perfectly willing to make up another jug of
the gas and place it where it could be stolen. This
was done and in a short time the young woman also re-
covered.

By this time the report had gone abroad that Mr. Rad-
am had discovered a wonderful medicine which had
performed wonderful cures. Sick people visited him by
the dozens. Still Mr. Radam did not dare openly advo-
cate the medicine. He talked candidly with the people
who came to see him. All offers of compensation Mr.
Radam refused, because, as he said, he was not in the
medicine business, and through gratitude in recovering
from his own diseases he could well afford to allow a
good many jugs of his remedy to be given away.

Almost as much to his own surprise as to the surprise
of others, the medicine seemed to cure every disease upon
which it was tried. It proved then, what Mr. Radam
has since proven to the scientific world, that all diseases
are caused by microbes, and that the microbes produce
fermentation and decay. To cure the disease it was only
necessary to kill the microbes, stop fermentation, and
the object was accomplished.

The demands for Mr. Radam 's medicine were so great
that he agreed to place it upon the market at a nominal
price. He now feared no attacks from the physicians
or persecution from the laws, as he had successfully
demonstrated that his remedy was harmless as water,
and furthermore that it had effected marvellous cures
in many cases and had actually benefited every person
who had tried it. On account of the manner in which
he discovered it and the action of the medicine itself, he
gave to it the name '' Microbe-Killer."

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178 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

The experiments which Mr. Eadam had made with
antiseptic gases and substances before he was successful
had occupied a whole year. The results of the use of
the '^ microbe-killer " had been published in the Austin
daily newspapers, and as soon as the remedy was placed
upon the market it had a large sale.

With the little nursery as a centre the merits of Ra-
dam's Microbe-Killer circulated day after day, perform-
ing apparent miracles in little hamlets, in mining camps,
in villages and cities. Gradually it crept into the East-
ern States, then to Canada and across the ocean. Mr.
Radam was unable to manufacture the microbe-killer in
quantities to meet the demand, and William Radam
Microbe-Killer Companies were organized in different
parts of the country. In nearly every State there was
such a company manufacturing its own microbe-killer
according to the formulas furnished by Mr. Radam.
Gradually these companies have been consolidated, un-
til to-day, in place of the great number of smaller com-
panies, there is a large company in New York, a
company in Chicago controlling the great mid- Western
section, a company in San Francisco, a company in Lon-
don, Canada ; another in Melbourne. Australia ; one in
London, England, and another in Paris to control the
whole territory of France.

Mr. Radam has advertised but little, nor have any of
his companies, preferring to trust entirely to the cures
effected by the microbe-killer. One million people have
used the microbe-killer, and their testimonials by the
thousands have poured into the offices of the various
companies, showing that the cures effected by the
microbe-killer have rivalled even the cures effected upon
Mr. Radam himself and his neighbors who stole the
medicine with his consent. Long ago Mr. Radam was
persuaded to give up the active management of his
nursery and greenhouse and devote his entire time to
the microbe -killer.

A curious feature about the success of Radam's
Microbe-Killer has been the attitude of the medical pro-

A newspaper's investigation. 179

fession toward it and the theories advanced by Mr.
Radam. At first they laughed at his discovery and
joked about it. His theories, they said, were nonsense.
Diseases were not caused by microbes, they declared, but
were simply diseases.

It is singular to note how slow the medical profession
was to adopt the microbe theory. Among the more
ignorant practitioners to-day, among that class of physi-
cians who have only recently accepted Harvey's theory
of the circulation of the blood — physicians who are giv-
ing pills and nostrums the same as their fathers did —
the microbe theory is still unbelieved. But among edu-
cated physicians there is not one who does not know
that every disease is caused by a species of microbes,
which vary with the character of the disease. More
than any one else in the whole world has Mr. Radam
brought about this change of opinion. By his discoveries
with the microscope, about which more will be said
later, he has actually proved that there is a separate and
distinct microbe for every disease.

From their attitude of laughter, as the success of Mr.
Radam's medicine and theories became more apparent,
the medical profession turned to jealousy. Later certain
quacks and impostors began imitating the microbe-killer.

From his laboratory Mr. Radam was compelled to go
to the courts. Up to the present time he has had many
cases in court, in all of which he has been successful.

Probably the most persistent attack was made upon
the microbe-killer by a physician and chemist, who de-
clared that the microbe-killer was a poisonous combina-
tion of acids, which had no effect but to injure the
whole system. This attack was inaugurated in an open
letter published in a trade- journal. It was followed up
by similar attacks under the signature of '^M.D." and
other means of concealment. The writer claimed that
his chemical formula would make the microbe-killer.

Mr. Radam immediately began a suit for damages
after demanding a retraction of the statements and
articles. The suit came to trial. The defence was :

180 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

That it was discovered by a nurseryman who knew
nothing of medicine or medical science.

That it was downright humbuggery to speak of all
diseases being caused by microbes, for the reason that
any man can count the number due to such cause on his
fingers and have digits to spare.

That surgeons only apply antiseptics to check the de-
velopment of microbes, but that they cannot kill them^
and

He asks the question whether such ignorance was ex-
cusable when it endangered the public health.

The defendant also submitted an analysis of the
microbe-killer which he claimed to have made. In re>
turn Mr. Radam submitted his affidavits that he had
never purchased or used an ounce of any kind of acid in
the manufacture, of his microbe-killer. He also proved
conclusively that the combination of gases which he
had used in making his microbe-killer, and the manner
in which they were generated and mixed, absolutely pre-
cluded a chemical analysis.

From the hundreds of volunteer witnesses among the
persons who had been cured by the use of the microbe-
killer, the court received the evidence of twenty, as
many as it deemed necessary.

These witnesses testified that they had been cured by
the use of the microbe-killer. Some had taken only a
few gallons, while others had taken one hundred or
more gallons of the gas.

The long case at last came to a close. Judge Andrews,
in his charge to the jury, told them that the plaintiff
had been libelled and that the whole article was libellous
on its face, and that the plaintiff had clearly proven,
beyond all possibility of doubt, the microbe- killer was
absolutely harmless and that it had effected wonderful
cures. The jury immediately returned a verdict for Mr.
Radam, and warfare was ended.

But Mr. Radam went further. He actually cured of
consumption a man who had been declared in writing,
by the physician against whom the suit was brought, as
having consumption.

A NEWSPAPER'S INVESTIGATION. 181

What more could be wanted to vindicate an inventor,
a discoverer of new theories, than the result of the con-
troversy ? What seemed at first persecution proved to
be a wonderful benefit.

The success with which the microbe-killer met caused
imitators to become active. In his safe Mr. Eadam has
dozens of circulars from quacks who were selling and
manufacturing imitation microbe-killers. Some even
went so far as to use Mr. Eadam's name and portrait as
the name and portrait of the seller of the medicines al-
leged to be cures. Some even used jugs identical with
those used by Mr. Eadam for the convenient keeping
of his microbe-killer. Mr. Eadam has won many suits
against these impostors, and has many suits still pending
which he cannot fail to win.

Seven years ago Mr. Eadam knew absolutely nothing
about medicine except what he had learned by drawing
similes between plant and animal life. By transferring
his knowledge of plant life and plant disease to the hu-
man system he had accomplished in the simplest manner
what regular physicians could never have accomplished.
In reality he was the apprentice or the '^greenhorn,"
referred to in the beginning of this article, who brought
about what the master of the prof ession could not. What
Edison did for the electrical world, Mr. Eadam did for
the medical world, with this difference : Edison's inven-
tions were designed to benefit mankind, while Mr. Ea-
dam's discoveries were to save the lives of sick people.

In spite of the fact that Mr. Eadam is not a physician,
he knows more about diseases and microbes to-day than
any other living man. To the objections and persecu-
tions of medical men and alleged scientists who claimed
that microbes were not the cause of disease, Mr. Eadam
simply said, as Harvey imitated Galileo, ^^ All diseases
are caused by microbes for all that."

Then Mr. Eadam had no actual proof of his theories
regarding microbes except his convictions and the cures
brought about by his microbe-killer. To-day he is in a
different position. During those seven years he has

182 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

been a close student, not of medical books, but of Nature.
With the most powerful microscopes obtainable he se-
cured microbes from nearly every disease known to>
medical science. He went further than this. In his own
laboratory he constructed a wonderful instrument for
photographing these microbes. It is too complicated to
be described here, but the results it accomplishes will
give an idea of what it will do. Upon a glass slide he
can place a drop of blood. A few moments later he can
show you a photograph five inches wide and seven
inches long, showing the blood corpuscles looking nearly
as large as silver dimes. But do not think that is the
photograph of the whole drop of blood. The lens is sa
powerful that it only covers a hundredth part of the
drop of blood. To photograph the whole drop of blood
would produce one hundred similar- pictures, or one con-
tinuous sheet of photographs containing one hundred
separate photographs, each seven inches long and five
inches wide.

Thousands and thousands of the microbe photographs
Mr. Eadam has made. He could secure no one compe-
tent to do the work, so he has done it all himself. In
his laboratory he has many prints of microbes taken
from every disease known to medical science. At the
World's Fair last summer he had hundreds of photo-
graphs of these different kinds of microbes, ranging
from the microbes which eat into the lungs and cause
tuberculosis to the microbes which eat into the scalp,
cause dandruff, and destroy the hair. Such is the man-
ner in which "Mr. Radam has proven what he once held
only as a possible theory.

In his main office at No. 1288 Broadway, near Thirty-
fourth street, Mr. Radam has a large collection of these
pictures and the finest microbe laboratory in the world.
There you can see in photographs all the microbes which
destroy life. If you prefer to see them in reality instead
of in photographs, there are revolving tables loaded with
microscopes, under the lenses of which are living mi-
crobes. In different bottles he keeps the different mi-

A newspaper's investigation. 183

crobes. Under the powerful lenses upon the slides the
microbes will live only about one hour. Then fresh mi-
crobes are placed upon the slides and the performances
begin again. You can see the little demons, millions
in a single drop, swimming about, jostling each other,
breaking into sections, and each piece almost instantly
becoming as large as the original microbe, cavorting and
turning about, now in one direction, now in another.
That is the way the microbes act when in the system.
In an almost incredibly short time one microbe becomes
a mass of microbes, then millions.

There are scores of interesting experiments which Mr.
Radam will show the visitor there — only too glad to show
them. He will prick the end of your finger and extract
a drop of blood, which he will place under one of the mi-
croscopes. Then you can see for yourself how your
blood looks. You can see the microbes, if there are mi-
crobes there, and there is likely to be. In no laboratory
in the world are such interesting experiments performed
as there.

Physicians from all over the country come to New
York to see and study the microphotographs in Mr. Ea-
dam's office. Not a day passes by that Mr. Radam does
not have distinguished visitors — physicians, sanitary ex-
perts, business men, society women, and all classes of
people — who want to learn more about microbes.

Few men could have accomplished physically what
Mr. Eadam has in seven years. He is a tireless worker.
Scarcely a day passes that he does not work sixteen
hours, either in experimenting with microbes or writing
about them. He has written one large volume about
microbes, which is regarded as a standard work, and he
is now preparing a second volume upon the same sub-
ject, fully illustrated.

Personally Mr. Radam is a very pleasant man to meet.
He is tall, rather stout, with a full face, a high forehead,
and an intelligent look flashes in his eyes. When he
talks about microbes his face lightens up and he becomes
a brilliant conversationalist. A reporter of The Press

184 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

spent several hours with Mr. Eadam one day last week,
and was shown how microbes are photographed, and also
shown the many experiments made before visitors at his
offices, No. 1288 Broadway.

Here are some of the things Mr. Eadam said to The
Press reporter which will interest those who would know
more about Mr. Eadam and his wonderful microbe-killer :

'^ Although it took a long time to make the discovery,
I did after all, and I can readily see now why it was more
natural for me to make so great a discovery than for
medical scientists. I simply did one thing. All my
knowledge of plants and flowers I transferred to the
human system. The analogy was perfect. Whatever
causes fermentation in a plant will cause fermentation
in a human body. Long before I made the discovery I
had found out that microbes caused fermentation in
plants. As soon as I drew the analogy between plants
and human life, I knew just as much about diseases in
human beings as I knew about diseases in plants.

*'The great quantity of medicine I took while under
the doctors' care I found afterward to be absolutely
worthless. I was suffering from fermentation caused
by microbes. Millions of microbes were swarming in
my blood, propagating themselves into countless other
millions, and all feeding upon my system. The medicine
I took, instead of killing these microbes, actually helped
to feed them. This I proved by a simple experiment
after I had made my discovery. I had saved samples of
all the medicines I had ever taken. Into quantities of
these medicines I placed living microbes taken from my
system. Instead of the medicine killing the microbes,
as it ought to have done in order to cure my disease, the
microbes actually propagated in the medicine.

'*When Professor Koch discovered his lymph the
medical world said it was a great discovery, and was
ready to accept his theories. I alone declared that it
was founded upon a wrong basis. In all the New York
papers I published exactly why it could not cure con-
sumption or any other disease. People laughed at me,

PLATE XXIV.

93. MICROCOCCUS PRODIGIOSUS.

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam,

94. VIBRIO AqUATILIS.

(IN STAGNANT WATER.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

95. VIBRIO SAPROPHILES (Weibel).

(in sewer slime.)
X 2500 Photomicrograph by Wm, Radam.

6. SPIRILLUM METSCHNIKOVJI.

(IN CHICKEN CHOLERA.)

2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

A newspaper's investigation. 185

but I knew what I was talking about. The results of
later experiments showed this to be true

^^I don't care what people may say, there is not a
single question about microbes or diseases that I cannot
answer. This is simply because of the perfect similarity
between plant and animal life, and my thorough ac-
quaintance with plants which I transferred from plant
life to animal life.

' ^ ^ Eadam's Microbe-Killer ' is not a medicine any more
than Seltzer water is a medicine. Just as the latter is
charged with carbonic acid gas, so the former is water
charged with antiseptic gases. It is used as water, only
in smaller quantities. Its antiseptic power stops fermen-
tation. No microbe, not even the microbes of leprosy,
can live in it. But the doses must be sufficient to per-
meate the entire body. Doctors give a spoonful at a
time. The dose of the microbe-killer is a wineglass
or more. Physicians' prescriptions are poisonous ; this
is not. Alcohol or whiskey is highly antiseptic, but
when diluted with water it loses its antiseptic power.
The same is true of drugs. Microbe-killer also loses
its property when diluted, and then it becomes useless.
It has no purgative effects, and no drugs may be mixed
with it ; but laxative pills, or any of the good antiseptic
or purgative preparations in the drug stores, may be
used for regulating the bowels. It should always be re-
membered that the value of any remedial agent depends
on its antiseptic properties ; a good supply of microbe-
killer, with means to regulate the system, is therefore
all that is necessary to guard against and cure disease.

^^ There is no need to inquire whether the microbe-
killer cures any particular disease. The question never
should be asked. It cures all. It purifies the blood. A
person may have a cancer, tumor, headache, or sore
eyes, Bright's disease, consumption, sore throat, or any
ailment. It matters not. We do not follow the doctors'
methods of diagnosing and treating specifically. We
cure all. We bring the blood into a pure and healthy
condition, and with that all disease disappears. The

186 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

names of various ailments are of no consequence ; but
they who want to know them must ask the doctors.
We only distinguish between disease and health, and
invariably effect a cure. When a plant is unhealthy
there is fermentation about the roots ; when a man is
unhealthy there is fermentation in the stomach. If the
roots are destroyed the plant perishes, and when the
human stomach is completely fermented the man dies.
All remedies, to be effective, must enter the stomach,
and not be inserted under the skin, as Dr. Koch's lymph
is, for example. If, then, the remedy be antiseptic and
harmless it will purify the stomach, free it from fermen-
tation and gases caused by microbes, and cleanse the
blood. Microbes take up oxygen and give out carbonic
acid, hence the sourness, fever, and pain accompanying
disease. Now, whatever goes into the stomach goes to
every part of the body. To cure the kidneys only is
not possible, because we cannot send the microbe-killer
into them and not into any other part of the body.
Wherever your pain is, the microbe-killer will find it
and cure it."

A EEPORT ON CERTAIN EXPERIMENTS

UNDERTAKEN TO ASCERTAIN THE GERMICIDAL AND DISINFECTING POWER

OP

RADAM'S MICROBE-KILLER,

BY

Dr. a. B. Griffiths, F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S.,

Member of the Chemical Societies of Paris and St. Petersburg ; Author of "A Manual

of Bacteriology,'" "Researches on Micro-Organisms," " The

Physiology of the Invertebrata," etc.

We must include among disinfectants all those sub-
stances which destroy the life of microbes. The applica-
tion of such substances to putrid mixtures results in the
cessation of putrefaction, and the reason why such appli-
cation remains efficacious is, either that the presence
of the substances prevents the development of farther
spores into the mature state, or else that they kill off
each microbe as it is developed. The precise modes of
action of disinfectants must necessarily be various in
character. Some owe their power to oxidation, others
to a reducing action, while others again may render the
medium, in which the microbes exist, unfit for their
further sustenance, by entering into combination with
the albuminous principles upon which they may have
hitherto depended for food, thus converting them into
substances which they cannot decompose. In this way
they may be starved out of existence. Collectively, all
substances which lead by their employment either to
the effectual interference of microbian processes or to
the death of the microbes which breed diseases, are dis-
infectants in the truest sense.

The object of the experiments recorded in this report
was to ascertain the action of Radam's Microbe-Killer
on certain pathogenic and non-pathogenic microbes, and
on the poisonous ptomaines produced during the course
of infectious diseases.

188

MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

FIRST SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

Silk threads were impregnated with the microbes of
scarlet fever, tuberculosis^ typhoid fever, Asiatic cholera^
diphtheria, glanders, and influenza, which were then im-
mersed in Eadam's Microbe-Killer. In each case the
microbes were completely destroyed by its action. The
destruction of the microbes in each case was proved by
no growths making their appearance in various nourish-
ing media, as well as by other well-known bacteriologi-
cal methods.

SECOND SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

Radam's Microbe-Killer was added to a number of
tubes containing pure cultivations of the seven microbes
already mentioned in this report, with the result that
the microbes of scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
Asiatic cholera, diphtheria, glanders, and influenza were
destroyed by its action.

THIRD SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

The object of these experiments was to ascertain
the germicidal power of Radam's Microbe-Killer when
sprayed into ordinary dwelling-rooms. The number of
microbes present in three gallons, or fifteen litres, of air
was ascertained by Professor Hesse's method (see Dr. A.
B. Griffiths' ''Manual of Bacteriology," p. 265, Heine
mann). The figures in the following table represent the
average number of microbes (colonies) in three gallons
of air, before and after spraying with Radam's Microbe-
Killer :

No.

Before Spraying.

After Spraying

10 Minutes.

20 Minutes.

30 Minutes.

I

328

305
261
196
325

112

99

73

61

106

36

28
15
12
31

0

II

Ill

IV

V

0
0
2

0

There is no doubt that Radam'^s Microbe- Killer is a

PLATE XXV.

97. BACILLUS ENTEBITIDIS.

(from infected animals.)
X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

98. PROTEUS VULGARIS.

(CHOLERA INFANTUM.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

99. BACILLUS ALVEI.

(in foul brood op BEES.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam.

100. BACILLUS INDICUS RUBER.

(in STOMACH AND INTESTINE.)

X 2500. Photomicrograph by Wm. Radam,

REPORT ON CERTAIN EXPERIMENTS.

189

powerful antiseptic, as it readily destroijs microbes con-
tained in the atmosphere. This antiseptic is fatal to
the lowest forms of life ; hence the reason that it arrests
fermentation and putrefaction. Consequently, it may
be used with advantage as an antiseptic dressing for
foetid sores, abscesses, sinuses connected ivith diseased
bones, etc., also for wounds.

FOURTH SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

The object of these experiments was to ascertain the
action of Eadam's Microbe-Killer on the microbes in cer-
tain waters. The number of microbes present in one
cubic centimetre (cc.) of the sample of water was ascer-
tained by Koch's or the plate-cultivation process. The
figures in the following table represent the average
number of microbes (colonies) in each cubic centimetre
of the sample of water before and after adding Eadam's
Microbe- Killer :

Water from

Before.

After adding

1 cc. of Radam's
Microbe-Killer.

3 cc. of Radam's
Microbe-Killer.

River Thames

River Lea

23,620

9,865

124

163
91

8

0
0

Lambeth Company's
Water

0

These as well as the preceding experiments prove the
high germicidal power of Radam's Microbe- Killer.

FIFTH SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

It is essential in the treatment of infectious diseases
that not only the pathogenic microbes should be de-
stroyed, but also the poisonous substances (ptomaines,
toxines, or animal alkaloids) which they indirectly pro-
duce. If any substance answers these conditions, we
are justified in pronouncing it a germicide or disin-
fectant ; and such a substance, according to its power,
may be of the greatest value in the treatment and
prevention of infectious diseases.

190 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER.

The fifth series of experiments were undertaken in
order to ascertain the action of Radam's Microbe-Killer
on the ptomaines which are produced in the system dur-
ing certain infectious diseases. I have isolated the fol-
lowing poisonous ptomaines, among others, from urine
in certain infectious diseases (see Dr. Griiifiths' papers
in the ^^Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences,"
Paris, tomes 113-117):

Scarlatinine (C^H.^NOj is the ptomaine of scarlet
fever. Radam's Microbe-Killer destroyed the poisonous
properties of this ptomaine.

Diphtherine (Cj^H^N^Oe) is the ptomaine of diphtheria
and is produced in pure cultivations of bacillus diph-
therice. Radam's Microbe-Killer destroyed the poisonous
properties of this ptomaine.

Glanders— The ptomaine (Ci^HioNaOe) of glanders is
highly poisonous, but Radam's Microbe-Killer rendered
it inert.

Puerperaliyie {Q^Jl^^O^ is the ptomaine of puer-
peral fever. It is highly poisonous and produces the
death of small animals within twelve hours. Radam's
Microbe-Killer rendered it inert.

Erysipeline (CjjHiaNOa) is the ptomaine of erysipelas.
It produces high fever and death within eighteen hours.
Radam's Microbe -Killer rendered it inert.

Influenza — The ptomaine (CgllgNO,) of influenza was
isolated from urine by Mr. R. S. Ladell and myself (see
**Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences," Paris,
tome 117; and ''Chemical News," vol. 68, p. 294). It
was readily destroyed by Radam's Microbe-Killer.

In the above cases the poisonous properties of each
ptomaine were completely destroyed and rendered inert
by the action of the fluid known as Radam's Microbe-
Killer. After the action of the said fluid on the pto-
maines, the characteristic tests failed to prove the
.presence of the smallest trace of each ptomaine. There
is no doubt that the said fluid neutralizes or destroys
some of the most deadly poisons produced during the
course of infectious diseases. Hence the reason that it

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ought to have a wide application in the treatment of in-
fectious diseases, as it has the power of eliminating from
the system the poisonous ptomaines. It may be stated,
en passant, that many ptomaines (in the isolated condi-
tion) are more poisonous than the vegetable alkaloids —
strychnine, aconitine, digitaline, etc.

SIXTH SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS.

The object of these experiments was to ascertain
whether Badam's Microbe-Killer was poisonous when
taken internally. The experiments were performed
upon myself and others, with the result that I am
justified in saying that the fluid in question is non-
poisonous, and its therapeutic action is that of a tonic
and an alterative. It was microscopically proved that
the activity of the leucocytes of the blood for destroying
microbes was increased after the action of Radam's
Microbe-Killer. This is a valuable property, as the said
fluid would help Nature in warding off the attacks of
pathogenic microbes.

It may also be stated that Eadam's Microbe-Killer has
no injurious action on the teeth.

REMARKS.

From these results I am justified in stating:

1. That Eadam's Microbe-Killer is a powerful germi-
cide or disinfectant, as it readily destroys the most
deadly microbes.

2. That Eadam's Microbe-Killer destroys the microbes
contained in air and water.

3. That Eadam's Microbe-Killer possesses the extremely
valuable property of rendering the poisonous ptomaines
perfectly harmless.

4. That Eadam's Microbe-Killer forms an excellent
gargle or antiseptic throat wash for patients suffering
from diphtheria, as it has the power of destroying the
microbe of diphtheria.

5. That Eadam's Microbe-Killer is perfectly harmless,
and may be administered, to children as well as adults*

192 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE -KILLER.

In conclusion, my investigations proved that Eadam's
Microbe-Killer is a valuable germicide and preventive,
consequently it should he used in every household.

A. B. Griffiths, F.R.S. (Edin.), F.C.S.

Microbes are the cause of all disease, and, as will be
seen by the foregoing testimony of Dr. A. B. Grriffiths,
F.R.S. (Edin.),F.C.S., etc., etc., Wm. Radam's Microbe-
Killer kills these microbes absolutely, and it also as abso-
lutely neutralizes the poisonous ptomaines which they
produce. It follows, therefore, as a necessary con-
sequence, that Wm. Radam's Microbe-Killer is a com-
plete, safe, and unfailing remedy, and it must and does
cure all disease.

A fifty-page book will be mailed free on application,
giving full directions for use and containing many testi-
monials received.

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