XII
MIND AND MICROBES
“The Lord shall preserve thy going and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.”
--Psalm 121:8
Some months ago there came to my hand a paper which will show that my views are not altogether personal, or antagonistic to a theory that has become such a bugaboo to many that everywhere and in everything they see lurking death. There are some physicians who seem to be obsessed with it, so much so that if we would escape danger we must perforce absent ourselves from the objective world; that is, we must actually die in order to escape death itself, since everything, from the dust on the window curtain to the smell of the sweet mown hay, is a menace to health.
The Standard Allopathic Journal of Canada says:
The reasons for questioning the germ theory are mainly three, viz: