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Table 84. — Survey of All Experiments on the Order of Death 



OF Bacteria 



Author 



Number of experiments 



With initial 



count 



missing 



With death rate 



Decreasing Constant Increasing 



Death by drying 



Paul (1909) 



Paul, Birstein and Reuss 



(1910a) 



Madsen and Nyman (1907) . 



Death by heat 



Chick (1910) 



Reichenbach (1911) 

 Eijkman (1912/13). 

 Sattler (1928) 



Death by chemical poisoning 



Madsen and Nyman (1907) 



Chick (1908) 



Chick (1910) 



Reichenbach (1911) 



Paul, Birstein and Reuss 



(1910b, c) 



Eijkman (1912/13) 



Lee and Gilbert (1918) 



Winslow and Falk (1926)... 

 Myers (1929) 



2 

 17 



Death by irradiation 



