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The basis of the usual methods in practice is to pass air over or through some nutrient medium.

It was Pasteur who in 1857 first propounded the true cause and process of fermentation.

Surface soils and those rich in organic matter supply a varied field for the bacteriologist.

This fact of the sterility of cleanly drawn milk is not a new one, and has been established by many bacteriologists.

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In the middle of the seventeenth century men learned, through the eyes of Leeuwenhoek, that drops of water contained "moving animalcules."

In this short space of time the iodine solution acts as a mordant of the purple colour in the bacteria, but not in the ground substance.

We must now turn to consider shortly the modes which may be adopted in preventive medicine for opposing bacteria outside the body.