Electro-motive force of amalgams

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1881
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 61 KB
• Volume: 111
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(81)90182-4

✦ Synopsis

Frank. lnst., tbrms, as was the case with some of the London water, which in 1851 and for some years after, was taken from the river at the ],ondon bridges, where contamination with sewage was very great.

These animalculm, therefore, may b e an indication of organic filth in the water, and this filth may be excreted from the intestines of diseased people. The animaleula~ themselves are probably no more injurious to a human being than raw oysters. In all probability they can be (ligested with equal rapidity, and there is, as far as we know, no possible way for them to get into the blood in a living state.

[Photographs were also exhibited of the fresh-water algae which were the cause of the disagreeable pig-pen odor in the Boston water a few years ago. These were from plates drawn by Prof. Farlow, of Harvard, for his paper in the Massachusetts State Board of Health Report for 1879.]