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Refuting What Have Been Called Facts

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Day
21
Month
September
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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lcveland Herald. "Teil me some popular errors in re;ard to the microscope," "One very okl and vcry common one s that every drop of water we drink is eeming with animal life. There never vas a greater mistake It is very rarey, indeed, in lake water that any anirualcula; are to be found. If a bit of rass or shred of meat, or any organic natter, be left in water two or threo ays, there they can be found. It is upposed that a peculiar kind of organj sm like eels can bc found in vinegar. t may be that way back in the counry, where they make vinegar out of pples, and not out of aquafortis, there may be some, but thy don't seem to hnve in city vinegar. Another thing, cople think that hairs are hollow. The ïair is no more hollow than a fence ost, and the coloring matter, instead )f being filled in a tube, is mixed up in ae cells of the hair. The mistake ever would have occurred if it had een recollected that the hair is but a moJification of the epidermis. Then iere is auother idea that the human kin is as f uil of pores as a sponge." The fallacy of this idea was demontrated by the microscopist's taking a lice with a razor ofl' hi i hand and pntïng it on a slide. The reporter was urprised to find that the pores were ery scarce iudecd, appeai-iog lu le bout a fiftietii of an inch apart.

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Ann Arbor Courier
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