Fragments of Science : a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses And Reviews
Fragments of Science : a Series of Detached Essays, Addresses And Reviews
John Tyndall
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There are other reflections connected with this sub- ject which, even were they now passed over without re- mark, would sooner or later occur to eveiy thoughtful mind in this assembly. I have spoken of the floating dust of the air, of the means of rendering it visible, and of the perfect immunity from putrefaction which accom- panies the contact of germless infusions and moteless air. Consider the woes which these wafted particles, during historic and pre-historic ages, have inflicted on man- k...ind ; consider the loss of life in hospitals from putre- fying wounds ; consider the loss in places where there are plenty of wounds, but no hospitals, and in the ages before hospitals were anywhere founded; consider the slaughter which has hitherto followed that of the battle- field, when those bacterial destroyers are let loose, often producing a mortality far greater than that of the battle itself; add to this the other conception that in times of epidemic disease the self-same floating matter VOL.
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