FACTS OF SCIENCE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1898

FACTS OF SCIENCE.

Fecundity of Germs.—Cohn, a celebrated Prussian bacteriologist, declares that a single germ could, under favorable conditions, multiply in three days to 4,772,000,000,000, and make a mass weighing 7,500 tons. It is a merciful provision of nature that “favorable conditions” never exist.

THE light of a kerosene lamp is said to be considerably increased by placing in the oil reservoir a fused mixture of two parts of pure, hard, white paraffine with one part of pure, hard spermaceti. About 0.3 gm. to 1-2℔ of oil will last about four days. This addition also is claimed to prevent the bad odor of certain kerosenes. (This is an English patent.)

A STOMACH bucket of the size of a small peanut with an open, incurved rim is used by Dr. Max Einhorn for obtaining a sample of the contents of the stomach. The patient swallows it readily, and after five minutes it is withdrawn by the silk thread to which it is attached, and the contents submitted to examination. It is not so objectionable to patients as the stomach tube.

EXPOSURE to sunlight is one of the best disinfectants for clothing known. The light passing through glass will not do it.

A FLY-WHEEL in Germany is made of steel wire. The wheel is 25 feet in diameter, and 250 miles of wire were used in its construction.