Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1905-09-01 | Page 3 | Forms of Disease Germs

FORMS OP OF DI GERMS harmless varieties may suddenly change their nature it Is common belief that the germs of disease flourish only in the human organ organism ibm and that it if we could once eradicate t an infectious malady it would stay eradicated it now seems very probable that this la Is untrue ac cording to a view held wholly or par trally by many patho pathology pathologists logi ft a and strongly upheld by prof bodia ills eabe germs are only accidentally viru lent th thir their ir normal existence being what Is called saprophytic that Is independent of an ani other organism when one of these harmless harui harm leba lebs varieties changes its nature r BO 0 as to become pai mitic we me have anew a bew disease ob has shown shonna that many kinds of bacteria are very unstable and are constantly forming new varieties it is possible therefore that potential terms of typhoid lockjaw or con gumption roa ma be gi owing bar harmlessly m bessiy about us to assume a virulent t para life at some future time lon don lancet