264 Microbes and You 



of bacteria. To answer this question, as well as many others in 

 biology and medicine, Reyniers and his colleagues at Notre Dame 

 have set up elaborate equipment to study the problems. This re- 

 search has been under way since 1928 and it is an interesting 

 chapter in the development of microbiology. Needless to say, 

 animals have been successfully raised microbe-free and they serve 

 the same function in science as a sterile tube of media, or as a 

 chemicallv pure reagent in chemistry, according to the investigators 

 at Notre Dame. 



