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HARMFUL BACTERIA AND ALKALINITY
Dr. D.C. Jarvis
Appendix Excerpt from Folk Medicine by D. C. Jarvis

A friend on the faculty of a medical school sent me for my informaation a list of bacteria harmful to the human body. with the reaction of the media most favorable for their growth. This list was made up for me at his request by the department of bacteriology, and reads as follows:

MOST FAVORABLE  REACTION  OF  MEDIA  FOR  GROWING  PATHOGENIC  BACTERIA

Microorganism  _Reaction
Staphylococcus 7.4  _alkaline
Streptococcus  7.4 to 7.6_alkaline
Pneumococcus 7.6 to 7.8_alkaline
H. Influenza  7.8_alkaline
Meningococcus  7.4 to 7.6_alkaline
Gonococcus Cnrymbacterium diptheriae 7.2_alkaline
B. abortus  7.2 to 7.4_alkaline
B. tularemae 6.8 to 7.3_alkaline
Clostridium tetani 7.0 to 7.6_alkaline

 It becomes apparent, as one studies this list, that microorganisms harmful to the human body grow on an alkaline soil. This is particuularly interesting in the light of the evidence that in dairy cows and human beings alike, an instinct exists which leads them to seek an acid intake.

In the light of the above evidence, it seems reasonable to suspect that pathogenic bacteria which are harmful to the body are in the world for another purpose than to cause sickness in human beings. Nature has spread acid vegetation about with a lavish hand. apparently to  prevent infestation of the body with pathogenic microorganisms, turning into infection of the body by these same microorganisms. The instinct leading animals and humans to seek acid vegetation  and acid liquids has been given as a protection.