p. 335 | Medical Value of Soap

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1879

Medical Value of Soap.

THE scientific investigation of Prof. Tyndall on air-dust, spores, fever germs, etc., has been of great value to sanitary science. They demonstrate the value of cleanliness as a preventive of disease. In a recent lecture reported by the Philadelphia Press, Dr. Richardson called attention to this fact, and remarked as follows:—

"It is worth while for common people to learn that 50,000 typhus germs will thrive in the circumference of a pin-head or a visible globule. It is worth while for them to note that these germs may be desiccated and be borne like thistle-seeds, every where, and, like demoniacal possessions, may jump noiselessly down any throat. But there are certain things spores cannot stand, according to the latest ascertained results of science. Soap chemically poisons them. Here sanitary and microscopic science come together. Spores thrive in low ground and under low conditions of life. For redemption, fly to hot water and soap, ye who live in danger of malarial poisoning. Hot water is sanitary. Soap is more sanitary. Fight typhus, small-pox, yellow fever, and ague, with soap. Soap is a board of health.—Good Health.