COUNTING THE MICROBES.
BACTERIOLOGIST'S CURIOSITY. . London, May 20. A bacteriologist noticed a little boy making mud pies iu a playground at Lyons, France. Out of curiosity, lie look one of the "pies" and examined it. The scientist found that the inud contained 1,800,000 germs of diphtheria, 2.-150,000 of measles, 000.000 of smallpox, 3.600.000 of lockjaw, 000,000 of dysentery, 505,000 of pneumonia, and G20,000 of tuberculosis.—Sydney "Sun."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 3
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66COUNTING THE MICROBES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 3
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