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Thrsc gvrus enter wine, c,u.iu. thvm
tu grow urid. chang, '-cn.sr oily ~ hlnay,
~ take rn a ,i,rid-,l ntirra-., ,nl :, b.
covered with iu1.i ~ the shape ~ mruld.
All these sirkn,,.cs ,l,lS.ui upru d. lie.
y,l,psmrn' 1T dla.-ru, iili'r plant, irum
the atmospheric c'rns, ENp ri'rrn's
have iu,,n mrir 10y inJ riiu. Hguids con.
tanning lurtrrii uu,,r the skin ~ li,ing
animals. D,s. resist the pri,rn Tut
rl,lirs rtu IT, Th.. pui~'urns i mainly
through tie rHpid incryg So ni ih- bac
teri, IN the sySirm m.Ans With and
iut, rrupjing ihr c1r uiaii"u nj the blood
lil-,d iakrn from an affected animal
isi,cir,i int. syond rX,ri, poi..'nuus
i ilu' nrr nnd y hai is ino.i ,ippuivr that
the hlnod taken from Zach surr>-ytly
afflicted animal i--rnmrs m"rr ,eSily IN
H. nature. Thr gr@lual inrrus- ~ the
virulrn' inr,-r - snch that. 10 Ne take =
DRIP 1T bl.,oi ir'm IN animal rpp~'nt.
ing thc tarnty f:ih term in n s,rirs Il
.grr save iuuuCulatis ;, anil ~ ''Iluts
this .ir"p With sai,r th.l ,irnp "i ,h-
dilu;iun cnrrtsprn,ling O. "nr inl,inuth
oi The original nr'p, Ne sri a liqnii oi
whirh lhc smallest quHU,IiS still displays
mrnrl activity. drop =. ,hlulcd.
~h'n cNtmint,l with the h'gh,I pnNrIs
ui the m',t perfect mirru.,opc p'r rmi's
no bscitria d. H. detected.
RELATIONS uF MICROSCOPIC LiFs To
DISEASE AND pg,Tm
In human malndi,s bacteria arr found
in the hloo'i nf prisons a,Inrkri i'y in
;rctsrus 'Iisonlrr-. IN iyphoid fever, il
the h'old Ice taken ir,m human hcing
~ attacked and injrr'cI into n nh'it
the batter dies. Small pnx. SCARLET fever
and kidney disrnscs owe heir contiguous
character To- the minute atmospheric
g'lWr, NHNn carly 'hN ''s'NNc lI'h 'uS
saiT;rr abroad. These germs, also,
entri n wound and caIse putr faction
hence the aim of the smrgen in nn OPP
eratinn is Ia bar pgrrsS Ia T i bacteria
10y the use oi m nnticepiic or disin!,ct
ant, that is, n substance possessing the
power 10 kill the germs. Or take IL
corpse. When life has rtrca,rd hy slow
degrees from all he parts of mn organ
izcal being; when, after all part ini deaths
have occurred, totul cnrh has possessed
the subject and broken NIL the -prlngs CT
Of i,s activity, the work o. putrcIac,ion
begins.
It's task is to unmke this body, tn
destroy its forms and discover ~ I
materials. Tho work 10 he done is to
destroy it, to reduce il into solils,
liquids and gascs, fit to 90 back again
into the vast reservoir whence new lifc
is inccss ss.nlly issung This is the task
thar, heat, moisture, mir and germs
will undertake in unison.
1t is all performed with steady dill
ligrnce. Nature knows no delay; as
snon rs the body is cold the protecting
c,mtins that covers all its surface,
cpithclum, decays in places, particularly
in the most"r paris. The agents ot
disnrganizaton, bacteria, or rather their
germs, penetrate ihro gh the skin, wind
INTO the small duets, invade the whole
blood and by degrees the whole orgnnism.
Soon they swarm everywhere, almost rs
numerous as the Chrmi"al molecules
in the midst of which they str.
The albuminoid M tiers are dccom.
posed into te.id gasts, escaping into
mir.
The fixed salts. alkaline md carthy
slowly rclease themselves from
the organic matter with which they
combined to form tissues. The fats
oxidIzc and grow acil; the moisture
dries away. Everything volatile yanishcs
and, ut the end of certain time, nothing
remains save the skeleton, but form
less mingIing Of mineral prcncipes,
sort uf humus, ready to manure the earth.
Now Mi these complex operations nbso-
iutrly required the intervention of tho
inIus"ria OF purretncron.
In pure mir, deprived OF living germs
they could not have been accomplished.