"Bacterium" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an acute infective disease due to the action of a specific bacterium, the bacillus diphtheriae or Klebs-Loffler bacillus. The disease is usually transmitted from one patient to another, but it may be contracted from cats, fowls, or through the milk of infected cows. Cases have occurred ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
... publish until he had made quite sure of his ground. This question and the preparation of the course of Elementary Biology [See below.] led him to carry on a series of investigations lasting over two years, which took shape in a paper upon "Penicillium, Torula, and Bacterium", first read in Section D at the British Association, 1870 ("Quarterly Journal of Micr. Science" 1870 10 pages 355-362.); and in his article on "Yeast" in the "Contemporary Review" for December 1871. He laboriously repeated ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
... possible development of masses will be found in Chrenberg's great work 'Die Infusionsthierchen als volkommne Organismen', 1838, s. xiii., xix., and 244. "The Milky Way of these organisms comprises the genera Monas, Vibrio, Bacterium, and Bodo." The universality of life is so profusely distributed throughout the whole of nature, that the smaller Infusoria live as parasites on the larger, and are themselves inhabited by others, ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... seen that bacteria differ greatly in appearance from the elongated dot of the bacterium proper, to the elongated rod or cylinder of the bacillus, and the long spirals of spiro-bacteria. It is unfortunate that they are not sufficiently constant in habit to always attach themselves to one or the other of these genera. The micrococcus has a habit of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various
... complaints (such as toothache) to worms, visible as well as microscopic, which may be held a fair prolepsis of the "germ-theory" the bacterium. the bacillus, the microbe. Nymphomania, the disease alluded to in these two tales is always attributed ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton |
