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The Red Dragon, the National Magazine of Wales. Ed. by C. Wilkins
The Red Dragon the National Magazine of Wales Ed by C Wilkins Author:Charles Wilkins General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Wherever the white mulberry tree grows, there is found the food of the small creeping things which (after fourteen days' nurture in warmth and moisture) issue living, out of the small spots of seed deposited by the caterpillar. Fed with care with the tender first budding leaves of the mulberry tree, the worm grows, passes through its several stages, spins its cocoon, remains dormant as a chrysalis, issues forth as a caterpillar, deposits its progeny, and passes out of life. The pecuniary interests of many tens of thousands of people are bound up with the healthy growth of these silkworms, from whose cocoons is wound the raw silken thread, which, when woven, produces the glistering product of the looms of Lyons and Spitalfields, and the velvet of Genoa. Pasteur sought for, and found in the fluids within the body of the diseased worm, traces of " something." He "cultivated" those traces in the manner in which I have already said Crudelli adopted. I use the expression " adopted " as it must be well understood that it was Pasteur who originated the method of cultivation described. He found in the cultivated fluid minute plant-like forms; they corresponded in general appearance with those subsequently observed by Crudelli, and depicted in the first paper -- they were bacilli; but they differed in many essential details from those recognised as existing in other diseased fluids. These bacilli cultivated, grew in the proper medium, deposited their seeds, which also grew and produced their myriads of misroscopic plants, " whose seed was in itself," for when a minute portion of this seed bearing fluid was ca...« less