Our secret friends and foes : expanded from lectures delivered before popular audiences in London, Edinburgh, and elsewhere / Percy Faraday Frankland.

  • Frankland, Percy, 1858-1946.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Our secret friends and foes : expanded from lectures delivered before popular audiences in London, Edinburgh, and elsewhere / Percy Faraday Frankland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inch in a single layer. Thus we could have a popu- lation one hundred times as great as that of London settled on an area of a single square inch, without any complaint of over-crowding, and giv- ing to each individual organism, not three acres —which Radical politicians used to tell us were necessary for the individual man—but one-four- Fig. i.—Various forms of Micro-organisms. hundred-millionth of a square inch, which is quite adequate for a citizen in the commonwealth of micro-organisms. The shape of these “ liliputians ” is generally very simple. Thus, some are merely more or less spherical granules, to which we give the name of