Schistosoma mansoni flatworm, male with female

Reginald McKenna as British Home Secretary asking Æsculapius for help with the microbe "Militancy"; referring to political militancy. Wood engraving.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

Amoebiasis: x-ray of colon. Photograph, 1930.

Diatoms hidden inside a grain of sand, SEM

Blue-green algae

Blue-green algae with nitrogen fixing cells

Intestinal bacteria

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