In his presidential-address to tho Health Congress at Leeds, Colonel T, W. Harding said that since Koch introduced his method of plato culture in 1881, great progress had been mado in, tho scienco'of bacteriological coicncp,; and we had still muoh to learn. Meanwhile wo had the satisfaction of knowing that not only wero the vast majority of tho myriads of micro-organisms beneficent, but (without them continued life upon the earth would not lie possible. The.v wero tie great gangs of God's unseen workers, "In time,, as wo get to know thorn," continued tho president, "we shall bo able to mako somo of them our rervanta, so wo have done with tlio ox or tlio olephant, with fire and iiteam, and we shall bo better aisle to control tlio few that aro dangerous when we know more 1 of tl)0 conditions that increase or reduce their virulence, and. of the incaiia for-strengthening tho defensive agoncies which naturo has provided within 7 us." ' For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Woods' Great Peppermint 'Curo, Is, lii, la, od. Adit,
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 13
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176Page 13 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 609, 11 September 1909, Page 13
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