In time some predaceous bacillus, having eluded the "killer," carried off its inventor. His nostrum soon languished. To-day it is little heard of, but from the ashes of its glories has risen a mightier successor, Liquozone. Where twenty years ago the microbe reveled in publicity, to-day we talk of germs and bacteria; consequently Liquozone exploits itself as a germicide and bactericide. It dispenses with the red wine of the Radam concoction and relies on a weak solution of sulphuric and sulphurous acids, with an occasional trace of hydrochloric or hydrobromic acid. Mostly it is water, and this is what it "cures": "Asthma, Gallstones, Abscess--Anemia, Goiter--Gout; Bronchitis, Hay Fever--Influenza, Blood Poison, La Grippe, Bowel Troubles, Leucorrhea, Coughs--Colds, Malaria--Neuralgia, Consumption, Piles--Quinsy, Contagious Diseases, Rheumatism, Cancer--Catarrh, Scrofula, Dysentery--Diarrhea, Skin Diseases, Dyspepsia--Dandruff, Tuberculosis, Eczema--Erysipelas, Tumors--Ulcers, Fevers, Throat Troubles --all diseases that begin with fever--all inflammations--all catarrh--all contagious diseases--all the results of impure or poisoned blood. In nervous diseases Liquozone acts as a vitalizer, accomplishing what no drugs can do." These diseases it conquers by destroying, in the human body, the germs which cause (or are alleged to cause) them. Such is Liquozone's claim. Yet the Liquozone Company is not a patent medicine concern. We have their own word for it: "We wish to state at the start that we are not patent medicine men, and their methods will not be employed by us.... Liquozone is too important a product for quackery." The head and center of this non-patent medicine cure-all is Douglas Smith. {024}Mr. Smith is by profession a promoter. He is credited with a keen vision for profits. Several years ago he ran on a worthy ex-piano dealer, a Canadian by the name of Powley (we shall meet him again, trailing clouds of glory in a splendid metamorphosis), who was selling with some success a mixture known as Powley's Liquefied Ozone. This was guaranteed to kill any disease germ known to science. Mr. Smith examined into the possibilities of the product, bought out Powley, moved the business to Chicago and organized it as the Liquid Ozone Company. Liquid air was then much in the public prints. Mr. Smith, with the intuition of genius, and something more than genius' contempt for limitations, proceeded to catch the public eye with this frank assertion: "Liquozone is liquid oxygen--that is all."