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ALMOST exactly on this day twenty-two years ago the subject of micro-organisms was introduced to the audience of the Royal Institution in one of those charming discourses, which so many of us well know were always to be heard from Dr. Tyndall. The title of his discourse on that occasion was “Dust and Disease,” and its contents should be studied by all interested in this departure of science, forming, as it does, a part of the classical literature of the subject in which it marks the commencement of a new epoch.
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Micro-Organisms in their Relation to Chemical Change 1. Nature 46, 135–140 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046135b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/046135b0