ee ettbledm and its fanucts, have for one eae ber feed led as strong 
Tae poisons. They were therefore introduced into medicine as good disinfe tion’ 
Vand. as remedies. Then Tausz for the first time observed in 1911, w a 
examining Wels bitumen, ‘that also raw petroleuin oils | could 
energy sources for bacteria and fungi. 
- xylene, paraffin, benzine, petroleum, aud Perey oil could be : oe 
species of microbes. hig 
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terium. The occurrence of diode bacteria in  gardenscil is probably connected wi 
Paraffin bacteria, that are similarly obtained ey means of sarantin oil, f 
agelihaeaa vigorously moving little rods of from 4 to 6 # an and 2 sf 
solutions, and observed both with the sated eye, and ip e gro 
phenomena shown by the bacteria. The following facts were noted: rian 
and heeadecrenes) but not Hemgiene: also neither napudine nor 
The. paraffin bactetium attacks: — n-hexane and n-octane, | not on 
higher members hexadecane, triacontane and tetratriacontane; of se 
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1) Zentralbl. fi Bakteriol. u. Parasitenk. “Abt. ce 49 (1919), 491. As. 
Biv?) xed CisHon which was ‘obtained by a ocean 
