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People on a clifftop, right, with to the left microbes in the air, represented as little monsters. Top right, men using a hand-pump to fire sprays of "Anios Liquide" over the cliff against the microbes, which are falling into the sea. Some of the microbes are labelled with names of diseases ("Charbon" [anthrax], "Mildew", "Fièvre Aphteuse" [foot-and-mouth disease], "Typhus", "Phtisie galopante" [galloping consumption or tuberculosis], "Choléra", "Peste")
In the foreground, a crowd of twelve people from different walks of life stand on the cliff and throw boxes of Anios powder at the microbes or pour Anios liquid from wicker-coated cans over them. The people include a workman (wearing clogs - Breton?), a postman, a chef, a waiter, a woman in a Breton coif, five middle-or upper-class men and a fashionable lady. Possibly the types portrayed may be associated with the diseases mentioned, e.g. the rustic Bretons with foot-and-mouth disease, the postman with mildew, the chef and waiter with typhus, the city-dwellers with cholera, etc.
The firm Laboratoires Anios was founded in 1898 in the Lille area by a chemist called Collet-Delval to sell products and services designed to ensure disinfection and hygiene in the vats of the growing brewing industry. In 1989 it moved to premises in Lille-Hellemmes, offering hygiene services to industry, hospitals, medical practitioners and institutional premises such as kitchens and old people's homes

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours on two sheets joined horizontally ; sheets together 191.5 x 133 cm

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

Students' aids series

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

The film shows growth and motility of mycoplasma pneumoniae, growing in a liquid medium on a glass surface. The growing of single cells out of colony-like clusters, the gliding motion of cells along the grass and the binary fission of the mycoplasma cells are demonstrated. In the last scenes the formation of colonies by single cells and the ageing of culture are shown.

Encyclopaedia Cinematographica.

Encyclopaedia Cinematographica

1 DVD (07 min.) : silent, black and white. 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (07 min.) : silent, black and white ; 12cm.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology / by Robert S. Breed, E.G.D. Murray, A. Parker Hitchens ; assisted by 60 contributors.

Nelson advanced modular science

iv, 92 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Microorganisms and biotechnology / John Adds, Erica Larkcom, Ruth Miller.

Lifelines

Human microbiology / Simon Hardy.

Flies; attributed to Paul Ehrlich, the German immunologist. Fragments, probably from two or three quite distinct films, showing: -- (i) Various species of housefly (stubenfliegen); a fly juggling a ball -- (ii) Microscopic slides of bacteria under magnification (including streptococci and staphyllocci); -- (iii) Horses (apparently in the context of their immunity to certain fly-borne infectious diseases). 'Science joins the force'; scenes from the opening ceremony of the Metropolitan Police Laboratory, Hendon, 10th April 1935 - described as "a new "lab" to catch old "lags"". Scenes of scientists at work (including Dr. James Davidson, first Director of the Laboratory) and of opening speech by Sir John Gilmour, then Home Secretary. The final frames afford a brief glimpse of Sir Henry Wellcome, a few months before his death, seated among the V.I.P. guests on the platform to the left of Sir John Gilmour. Of great interest to historians of forensic science and medicine.

1 videocassette (VHS) (7 min.) si. & sd., b&w., PAL. 1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (7 min.) si. & sd, b&w., PAL. 1 DVD (7 min.) si. & sd, b&w., PAL.

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

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology / by Robert S. Breed, E.G.D. Murray, A. Parker Hitchens ; assisted by 60 contributors.

Microorganisms and biotechnology / John Adds, Erica Larkcom, Ruth Miller.

Human microbiology / Simon Hardy.

Flies & Opening ceremony, metropolitan police laboratory

Studies upon the life cycles of the bacteria ... / by F. Loḧnis.

Developmental biology of prokaryotes / edited by J.H. Parish.

Lectures on bacteria / by A. de Bary.

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

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology / by Robert S. Breed, E.G.D. Murray, A. Parker Hitchens ; assisted by 60 contributors.

Microorganisms and biotechnology / John Adds, Erica Larkcom, Ruth Miller.

Human microbiology / Simon Hardy.

Flies & Opening ceremony, metropolitan police laboratory

Studies upon the life cycles of the bacteria ... / by F. Loḧnis.

Developmental biology of prokaryotes / edited by J.H. Parish.

Lectures on bacteria / by A. de Bary.

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