BILLIONS ON A PIN'S HEAD.
Micro-organisms or germs in their way are of all sizes. Thus, that germ which is the dread of every surgeon, the staphylococcus pyogenes aureus can hold a «riass meeting of 8,000,000,000 on the tip of ;i lancet. By a device called a cytometer they can be counted, no matter how numerous, with greater accuracy than that which census officials can report the population of London. But this staphylococcus is a large germ compared with that dread of physicians, Pheifler's influenza bacillus, which is is much smaller than a staphylococcus as a pea is smaller than a melon. In fact, we" come at last to microorganisms which tire tno small to he seen at all by the highest powers of our wonderful microscopes, though know that t-hej exist because of doings of theirs which only living things are capable of. One remarkable and formidable instance of the sind is that which comes to us by the bite or sting of one of the 12.1 different kinds of mosquitoes, a kind Jailed the stegomj ia, which it infests as a parasite.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 375, 5 July 1911, Page 3
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184BILLIONS ON A PIN'S HEAD. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 375, 5 July 1911, Page 3
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