MICROBES.
In a recent issuo of "Le Journal," Professor Eugene Wollmann, of the Institut Pasteur, published an interesting article on microbos. He says that besides dangerous microbes there are others to whom we should be really thankful, and whom human beings have . \ised without knowing it in* the preparation of certain - foods and liquids. This, of course, was ori-i ginally discovered by Pasteur, who was, however, Indebted in some degree to the findings of a Dutch scientist, one Leeuwenfioek, who lived 201) years ago. Everybody has a number of microbes wulch live inside him, and Professor Wollmann raises the question, raised but unsolved by Pasteur: Would it be better to live without internal microbes ? Professor Wollmann concludes, from the result of his- own experiments and those of his colleagues, that internal miscrobes do not aid .in. any appreciable •manner with the process of digestion, whereas, as Professor Metclinikoff has already pointed out, even "normal" internal microbes may produce a poisonous effect in the human system. •
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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165MICROBES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 December 1913, Page 4
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