Show I I ENOUGH H MICROBES TO KILL EVERY EVERYBODY ODY I Carefully guarded guarde and ad tended in one room in London there are ae enough microbes mi- mi to kill ki every man ma woman and anti child in the tile world The room is In the Institute of Pre Preventive entire Medicine e building situated In one of oC the most mot populated densely-populated districts districts districts dis dis- dis- dis of the big city The microbes are there In thousands s and even billions and they are aie Just yearning to be at th their thir ir fell fel work upon upon up up- on human beings n They e represent almost enc every e known n disease and are classified rJ An Aft uniformed might walk surrounded by an atmosphere best suited suied to them and they are nursed with wih as a much care cae and tenderness as is given ghen glen to the fairest and rarest of flowers The microbe fc b brag rag establishment Sis is maln- maln for the purpose of enabling medical medical medi tI cal men to become familiar with these mighty atoms Of oC destruction Here lie they have every opportunity I to make a close ri study gy of the precise character ha c ap appearance appearance ap- ap p pp p arance and disposition of the different to discover In fact everything that can possibly be discovered with wih a aview aview view to Co the prevention and cure of diseases diseases dis dis- dis eases ases that are caused by microbes And one can easily conceive what a a Ing study bacilli cilli afford aford i t so on right through the tho list of ot diseases es through the Incubator room ro of the ins i- i tute without dreaming for a I moment th t thiat at he was In a hotbed of disease He wound d dmore do more imagine that ho he was In Ini a novel o kind hind f of b bakery ni where s small a om s of variously colored fluids were stored ft e ebe be In an even temperature temperature for arou au d the room are arranged numerous oven eve i J- J like Incubators Incubator with glass glas doors i which one one- can perceive the tho long gla glas s a tubes tube containing the bacilli whose wa of egress egress f om f-om om the tubes tube Is barred bared b bi b. nothing mo me impenetrable than smal wads of cotton coton There quietly almos almost Invisibly reposes a power great enough to sweep the earth arth of human life And the bacilli bacil demand the Te St at attention tenSion tenton the most delicate feeding Al Almost Almost i Al-i most every ever different kind of microbe h has haq particular likes and dislikes which hav have to be he carefully studied One kind of I bacilli likes to dine dine- off of horses horses' blood another another an- an other off of broth while a third will wi touch nothing but a peculiar kind of jel jelly and andr for several excellent t reasons should h d be fJ 11 I 1 for represented r though luckily the c catering ca- ca department of the establishment a afew afew a few agree In having very similar tastes |