{"id":2916,"date":"2013-12-20T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg"},"modified":"2013-12-20T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T22:07:19","slug":"6971_large_web_blog","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/01\/24\/beer-yeast-and-louis-pasteur\/6971_large_web_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"6971_large_web_blog"},"author":19605840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"class_list":["post-2916","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/a3xcDk-L2","amp_enabled":true,"description":{"rendered":"

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

The poem continues:
\nJust think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted
\nThe water I drank in the days called to mind
\nEre I Knew what professors and scientists gifted
\nIn the water of wells by analysis find.
\nThe rotting wood fiber, the oxide of iron,
\n[unreadable]
\nThe water impure as the versed of Byron,
\nAre things I remember with tears in my eyes.
\nTo tell the sad truth, though I shudder to think it,
\nI considered that water uncommonly clear.
\nAnd often at noon when I went there to drink it,
\nI enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer.
\nHow ardent I seized, with the hands that were grimy,
\nAnd quick to the mud covered bottom it fell;
\nThen reeking with nitrates and nitrites, and slimy
\nWith matter organic, it rose from the well.<\/p>\n

Oh, had I but realized in time to avoid them,
\nThe dangers that lurked in that pestilent draught,
\nI’d have tested for organic germs and destroyed them
\nWith potassic permanganate ere I quaffed;
\nOr perchance I’d have boiled it and afterward strained it
\nThrough filters of charcoal and gravel combined,
\nOr, after distilling, condensed and regained it
\nIn portable form with the filth left behind.
\nHow little I knew of the dread typhoid fever
\nWhich lurked in the waters I ventured to drink;
\nBut since I’ve become a devoted believer
\nIn teachings of science, I shudder to think.
\nAnd now, far removed from the scene I’m describing,
\nThe story for warning to others I tell,
\nAs memory reverts to my youthful imbibing,
\nAnd I gag at the thought of that horrible well,
\nAnd the old oaken bucket, the fungus-grown bucket\u2014
\nIn fact, the slop bucket that hung in the well.
\n\u2014J. W. Bayles<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

April 1889 edition of Le Pasteur.
\nNational Library of Medicine # 9429445 http:\/\/locatorplus.gov\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&v2=1&ti=1,1&Search_Arg=9429445&Search_Code=0359&CNT=25&SID=1<\/a><\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"First page of the Aril 1889 edition of Le Pasteur showing the mastead including an engraving of Pasteur and a stamp of the Army Medical Library","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":1600,"height":2370,"file":"2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg","sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":""}},"post":2903,"source_url":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}]}}