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numerous important ways in which these tiny plants affect 

 our daily lives. In fact their discovery has practically 

 revolutionized our method of living in many ways. 



FIG. 225. Louis Pasteur, founder of the science of bacteriology. 



Modern methods of sanitation and hygiene, public and 

 private, modern house furnishing, as, for example, the 

 substitution of bare floors with rugs in place of carpets, 

 modern views of disease and methods of treating it, and 



