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PAK V 
NEW EXPERIMENTS WITH SUPERHEATED 
SALINE, SOLUTIONS 
CHAPTER: XTX 
OBJECTS AND METHODS IN THE NEW EXPERIMENTS: 
INITIAL TRIALS 
he far as we have seen all micro-organisms, with 
the exception of Bacillus spores and certain 
Conferve living in hot springs, are admitted to be 
killed in the moist state when heated to tempera- 
tures ranging from 60°-75° C. (140-167 F.).! Yet, 
as I have shown, not only Bacilli, but Micrococci, 
Streptococci, Torulz, and other micro-organisms, 
have been found to be living, and, in many cases, 
actively multiplying, in organic fluids taken from 
closed tubes which have been heated to tempera- 
tures ranging from 100°-125° C. (212°-257° F.). 
Further evidence in favour of the de xovo origin 
of living things, in the face of these facts, would 
seem to be unnecessary. But the majority of persons 
, 1 One exception to this only is known tome. A Saccharomyces has 
been found which causes fermentation at 183° F., some account of which 
is given in the Journal of the Federated Institute of Brewing, vol. xi., 
No. 6, 1905. 
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