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Show i YOUR HEALTH j I BY OR. R M. BISHOP. J - GERM A PI ANT; SO BUG. Ask the average person what a Z' rni is If he attempts to anewer at all he probably will say It's a little animal that will make you sick if he gets into your system. Germs are not little animals. Th'iy are tiny plants, the smallest living tinners known They arc sometimes called bacteria or microbes You ; might have some Idea of th size of a germ If you could take ti grain ut . sand and spilt it Into a million plece. Of i curse, some get ins ?re larger than others, but the lari,-et cannot be seen without the nld of a powerful mlcro-scope. mlcro-scope. Millions of germs can exist In a drop 01 watnr without ewn crowding tj'-rms do not lhc in out of the I wa places Except In the polar re ; gions, in the middle of the ocean, and on the tops of high mountains, they are present everywhere. They are on our bodies, our clothing, in our food ( r ; Mug we see or touch. 'I'lv if.isoti v.i- nr.. not sick all the time or most of the time is that com-paratlvely com-paratlvely few of these perms cause disease; also because most of us are strong i tiough to resist the few that -,- t Into our bodies. Ba terla multiply by simply breaking break-ing apart Soon the two parts arc fUll-SlSOd germs and each Itself ep:i- rates, so that it is easy to see how quickly millions of germs can be produced pro-duced Cold stops their growth, but I they begin to grow again when thwy become warm. Boiling kills them. Doctors and nurses boil thlr instruments anl dressings to kill the germs, and do not handle them until ready for use. One of the chief reasons why food Is boiled bffoie a n n 1 n rT Is to kill th bacteria. Then it is put into airtight cans, so that no more germs can 1 reach It. oo |