Article May 17, 1924 Issue

While Dr. Searle is right in stating in "Expense and...

Harry K. Filler, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—plymouth

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While Dr. Searle is right in stating in "Expense and Other Things," printed in your issue of January 10, that "the Christian Scientist says the germ theory is wrong," it is proper to add that many people of other denominations share the conviction of the Christian Scientist on the subject of this theory. As a matter of fact, many of the most advanced thinkers in the medical profession, both in this country and abroad, are frank in the expression of their convictions that the germ theory has no scientific basis upon which to rest its claims. Even Dr. Rudolph Virchow, father of it, has frankly said: "Germs are not always found where there is disease. They are also found where there is no appreciable disease, and may be the result of and not the cause of disease." Dr. J. W. Hodge, a noted medical practitioner, in an article "Bacteriophobia and Medical Fads," has said: "The germ theory is a mere phantasy of microscopists who know little or nothing about the real nature of disease. Moreover, many investigators who were at one time identified with the germ theory are now on record as having abandoned it as untenable."

I may be pardoned for quoting these authors, since it would seem proper to answer Dr. Searle's accusation by the use of statements of men in his own profession. Charles Levere, in his book "Startling Facts about Disease," states, "Bacteriologists have taught us nothing of the cause or cure of disease, but have caused considerable disease and suffering by their serums, which transgress the first law of health, that of keeping the blood stream pure." The medical profession are not as one in agreement on the subject of vaccination and antitoxins. Dr. J. F. Baldwin, while president of the Ohio State Medical Association, before one of their meetings in June, 1920, stated, "The treatment of diseases, or their prevention by antitoxins, serums, and vaccines, is still very largely in the experimental stage, with grave doubts as to the value of the vast majority."

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