Germs Cause Fever.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6195, 24 March 1888, Page 4

Germs Cause Fever.

The germ theory of disease has received further support from the researches which a scientist of the United States has instituted into the causes of the terrible mortality recently prevailing among fresh water fish in some parts of the American Continent. The mortality among the perch and other fish of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin particularly, had been extraordinary, the fish dying off in enormous numbers. Professor Forbes, of the Illinois State College, h&3 reported that diseases due to tho minute spherical microbe or germ, whose diameter is only about the l-2o,ooothparb of an inch. This germ he discovered in the liver and the kidneys of the diseased fish. There it forms abscesses, which ultimately destroy the cells of those organ's, and therewith the life of fche fish. Professor Forbes says that there are various species of this germ, and that they attack human beings. The different varieties cause specific diseases, such .S3 fevers, Emall-pox, chicken-pox, hogcholera, and co forth. It is a wellknown fact that in an infected locality only a portion of the inhabitants are attacked with, cay, typhoid fever. And the answer as to why this is so, and which ie reasonable, is that the resisting or antipathetic power in Eome constitutions is greater than in others. What is this power? Ifc is simply nerve force. And for just this reason it behoves every man and woman to keep his or her system in the best possible condition to resist disease, and no better plan can be employed than to take Warner's safe cure and safe pills to keep the nerves of the system in sound order, a,ad able at all times to perform the work put upon them. The deaths from typhoid fever in the Colonies is something alarming. It has often been called, and very appropriately, "Colonial fever." Much of it, however, can be avoided. Cesspits ought to be abolished ; water and milk should always be boiled during typhoid infection to kill the germs, ; perfect cleanliness of the person must not be neglected; isolation of typhoid patients should be insisted on ; all excreta should be burned. The important feature, however, is to keep the system in such rude health that it will neutralise the evil effects of such germs as may be breathed into tho lungs or taken into the stomach through liquids, and thu3 escape disease and death. We have pointed out how to attain this result, and hundreds of instances prove our theory sound:

The annual meeting of the Glasgow Savings Bank, which is stated to be the , largest savings bank in the world, has just , taken place. The Lord Provost, who prei sided, said tho total funds in hand were •£4,680,000, and liabilities due to depositors ■£4,622,000, leaving a balance of .£68,000. The depositors number 137,204, being an increase of 3541 for the year. Queen Victoria is to receive the first bar i of gold taken from the newly-discovered ( Gwynfynydd mine at Dolgelly, Wales.