Category: Science - Biology

Bacteria in Daily Life

"Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright...

Chapters

12. Part 12

It is far from an easy matter to secure for experimental purposes an adequate supply of eel serum, for even a big fish weighing nearly five pounds is not capable of yielding mor...

6. Part 6

Even the smoke-laden atmosphere of our great cities, our leaden skies and dreary fogs and mists, may after all, then, if we can only learn to look at them from Dr. Masella's poi...

11. Part 11

Until quite recently it was thought that the only creatures which could resist the fatal action of this poison were serpents, both poisonous and non-poisonous. Calmette was led...

7. Part 7

That disease germs may be distributed with the vegetables grown on municipal sewage farms is not a mere whim or fancy of the faddist, but is a very real danger, and must be rega...

8. Part 8

Another experiment illustrates perhaps even more strikingly the effect of cleanly operations in milking upon the initial bacterial contents of milk. The preliminary precautionar...

10. Part 10

Botanists had already shown that exposure to liquid air, which means a temperature of about -190° C., and to liquid hydrogen, which means a temperature of about -250° C., did no...

2. Part 2

The discoverer of this useful member of the microbial community is Tssatschenko, of the University of St. Petersburg, and in his memoir he states that, whilst highly virulent as...

1. Part 1

"Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle s...

3. Part 3

Out at sea, beyond the reach of land breezes, it is no uncommon thing to find none whatever; on mountains and even hills of humble elevation the paucity of bacteria is very mark...

4. Part 4

Mention may also here be made of the investigations made by these gentlemen on the air of Board schools, which showed that in those buildings where mechanical ventilation was us...

5. Part 5

Comparatively little has been done in this direction, but those results which have been obtained are exceedingly suggestive. Professor Buchner has published some preliminary exp...

9. Part 9

To overcome these difficulties many ingenious pieces of apparatus have been devised, based upon a process originally introduced by Pasteur for preventing certain defects in wine...

13. Part 13

The significance and far-reaching application of this most important discovery cannot easily be overestimated. Hitherto the preparation of an anti-toxin has been the chief point...