Bacteria in Daily LifeLongmans, Green, 1903 - 216 páginas |
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... discovery of a means to eradicate the prickly - pear disease . Plant pathology has not yet had a distinct chair allotted to it in any of the great universities , but the subject is of such vast industrial importance , that doubtless ...
... discovery of a means to eradicate the prickly - pear disease . Plant pathology has not yet had a distinct chair allotted to it in any of the great universities , but the subject is of such vast industrial importance , that doubtless ...
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... discovery that this change was dependent upon the vital energies of micro- organisms . The part played by bacteria in the purification of sewage thus became an established fact , and the later experiments have been devoted to study- ing ...
... discovery that this change was dependent upon the vital energies of micro- organisms . The part played by bacteria in the purification of sewage thus became an established fact , and the later experiments have been devoted to study- ing ...
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... their undoubted culpability in the dissemi- nation of plague , this discovery , if correct , should be warmly welcomed . That there is plenty of work C awaiting such a micro - organism may be gathered from IN THE VICTORIAN ERA 17.
... their undoubted culpability in the dissemi- nation of plague , this discovery , if correct , should be warmly welcomed . That there is plenty of work C awaiting such a micro - organism may be gathered from IN THE VICTORIAN ERA 17.
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... discovery that chicken - cholera , far from not existing in Australia , has infested poultry yards more or less extensively for several years past , although it has only lately been accurately diagnosed as such . This chicken - cholera ...
... discovery that chicken - cholera , far from not existing in Australia , has infested poultry yards more or less extensively for several years past , although it has only lately been accurately diagnosed as such . This chicken - cholera ...
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... discovery for the relief of suffering humanity . These Pasteur or bacteriological in- stitutes also furnish highly important centres where original research work of various kinds is carried on , and the stimulus which has thus been ...
... discovery for the relief of suffering humanity . These Pasteur or bacteriological in- stitutes also furnish highly important centres where original research work of various kinds is carried on , and the stimulus which has thus been ...
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Página 147 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
Página 4 - Whenever and wherever there is decomposition of organic matter, whether it be the case of an herb or an oak, of a worm or a whale, the work is exclusively done by infinitely small organisms. They are the important, almost the only, agents of universal hygiene; they clear away more quickly than the dogs of Constantinople or the wild beasts of the desert the remains of all that has had life; they protect the living...
Página 138 - No doubt the largest part of the tuberculosis which man obtains through his food is by means of milk containing tuberculous matter.
Página 129 - Compared with sewage, for instance, a fluid which is popularly and rightly supposed to teem with germ life, it will almost always be observed that milk when it is consumed is richer in bacteria by far than the sewage of our large cities.
Página 138 - Ordinary processes of cooking applied to meat which has got contaminated on its surface are probably sufficient to destroy the harmful quality. They would not avail to render wholesome any piece of meat that contained tuberculous matter in its deeper parts. In regard to milk we are aware of the preference by English people for drinking cow's milk raw — a practice attended by danger on account of possible contamination by pathogenic organisms. The. boiling of milk, even for a moment, would probably...
Página 94 - Elbe for their water-supply, but whereas in the case of Hamburg the intake is situated above the city, the supply for Altona is abstracted below Hamburg after it has received the sewage of a population of close upon 800,000 persons. The Hamburg water was, therefore, to start with, relatively pure when compared with that destined for the use of Altona. But what was the fate of these two towns as regards cholera? Situated side by side, absolutely contiguous, in fact, with nothing in their surroundings...
Página 101 - The death-rate from this cause has generally fallen as the per cent, of the population supplied with public water has risen, for the reason that the majority of the deaths from typhoid fever have occurred among communities and portions of communities not supplied with public water.
Página 124 - ... for dairy purposes should be absolutely beyond suspicion of contamination. Professor Russell has shown by actual experiment that, even where the vessels are in good condition and fairly well cleaned, the milk has a very different bacterial population when collected in them and in vessels stabilised by steam.
Página 97 - ISM while when efficiently pursued it forms a most important barrier to the dissemination of disease germs, the slightest imperfection in its manipulation is a constant menace during any epidemic.