THE GERM THEORY | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 4, 1901

THE GERM THEORY.

WHAT is known as “the germ theory” is scaring many persons into the vain attempt to dodge all evil germs. Commenting upon the omnipresence of deadly germs, a noted New York physician well says: “Germs?—To be sure, there are germs everywhere! Germs of all kinds, and germs of every possible character; but do not forget that there are germs of health as well as germs of disease, and that when the body is in a normal condition, these germs of health are strong and ferocious, and are capable of destroying any other germ which might try to encroach upon their territory. Take any man in robust health,—not a fat, alcohol-bloated specimen,—and he can eat germs, and they will have absolutely no effect upon him. . . . It is the presence of impurities in the blood that makes the production of a cold possible. Exactly the same condition prevails with disease germs, and they are absolutely powerless if the body is free from the impurities upon which they feed. . . . Do not be fooled by this germ theory. Keep your body strong, your blood pure, and every germ of disease that enters will be pounced upon by the ferocious germs of health, and be torn literally to atoms.” These words are by a vegetarian and an inveterate hater of the use of drugs in disease. Avoid all the disease germs you can; but do not be in mortal fear of those which you cannot avoid.