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germs, are not killed in slightly alkaline or neutral 

 solutions which have been boiled, very many of the 

 experiments of M. Pasteur with such fluids may be cited 

 amongst many others by Schwann, Mantegazza, Pou- 

 chet, Joly, Musset, Wyman, Hughes Bennett, Child, 

 Cantoni, and other experimenters, in addition to those 

 recorded in the present work^ as testifying to the 

 reality of the process of Archebiosis, and to the erro- 

 neousness of the doctrines concerning Fermentation, 

 of which he is the advocate. 



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