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periments, to cultivate the stomacal sarcine, wherefore they prepared, as nutrient 

 liquid, artificial gastric juice with different additions. Remarkable, and illustrating 

 the biological views of those days, is the fact, that for the infection they did not use 

 the stomacal contents themselves, but beer yeast, supposing, that the sarcine might 

 originate from the yeast cells, which somewhat resemble it, and are always found in 

 the stomach together with the sarcine itself. 



