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{"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":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg?fit=203%2C300&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"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\" data-attachment-id=\"2916\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2014\/01\/24\/beer-yeast-and-louis-pasteur\/6971_large_web_blog\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg?fit=1600%2C2370&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,2370\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"6971_large_web_blog\" data-image-description=\"<p>The poem continues:<br \/>\nJust think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted<br \/>\nThe water I drank in the days called to mind<br \/>\nEre I Knew what professors and scientists gifted<br \/>\nIn the water of wells by analysis find.<br \/>\nThe rotting wood fiber, the oxide of iron,<br \/>\n[unreadable]<br \/>\nThe water impure as the versed of Byron,<br \/>\nAre things I remember with tears in my eyes.<br \/>\nTo tell the sad truth, though I shudder to think it,<br \/>\nI considered that water uncommonly clear.<br \/>\nAnd often at noon when I went there to drink it,<br \/>\nI enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer.<br \/>\nHow ardent I seized, with the hands that were grimy,<br \/>\nAnd quick to the mud covered bottom it fell;<br \/>\nThen reeking with nitrates and nitrites, and slimy<br \/>\nWith matter organic, it rose from the well.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, had I but realized in time to avoid them,<br \/>\nThe dangers that lurked in that pestilent draught,<br \/>\nI’d have tested for organic germs and destroyed them<br \/>\nWith potassic permanganate ere I quaffed;<br \/>\nOr perchance I’d have boiled it and afterward strained it<br \/>\nThrough filters of charcoal and gravel combined,<br \/>\nOr, after distilling, condensed and regained it<br \/>\nIn portable form with the filth left behind.<br \/>\nHow little I knew of the dread typhoid fever<br \/>\nWhich lurked in the waters I ventured to drink;<br \/>\nBut since I’ve become a devoted believer<br \/>\nIn teachings of science, I shudder to think.<br \/>\nAnd now, far removed from the scene I’m describing,<br \/>\nThe story for warning to others I tell,<br \/>\nAs memory reverts to my youthful imbibing,<br \/>\nAnd I gag at the thought of that horrible well,<br \/>\nAnd the old oaken bucket, the fungus-grown bucket\u2014<br \/>\nIn fact, the slop bucket that hung in the well.<br \/>\n\u2014J. W. Bayles<\/p>\n\" data-image-caption=\"<p>April 1889 edition of Le Pasteur.<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine # 9429445 http:\/\/locatorplus.gov\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;v2=1&amp;ti=1,1&amp;Search_Arg=9429445&amp;Search_Code=0359&amp;CNT=25&amp;SID=1<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg?fit=203%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/6971_large_web_blog.jpg?fit=691%2C1024&ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The poem continues:<br \/>\nJust think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted<br \/>\nThe water I drank in the days called to mind<br \/>\nEre I Knew what professors and scientists gifted<br \/>\nIn the water of wells by analysis find.<br \/>\nThe rotting wood fiber, the oxide of iron,<br \/>\n[unreadable]<br \/>\nThe water impure as the versed of Byron,<br \/>\nAre things I remember with tears in my eyes.<br \/>\nTo tell the sad truth, though I shudder to think it,<br \/>\nI considered that water uncommonly clear.<br \/>\nAnd often at noon when I went there to drink it,<br \/>\nI enjoyed it as much as I now enjoy beer.<br \/>\nHow ardent I seized, with the hands that were grimy,<br \/>\nAnd quick to the mud covered bottom it fell;<br \/>\nThen reeking with nitrates and nitrites, and slimy<br \/>\nWith matter organic, it rose from the well.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, had I but realized in time to avoid them,<br \/>\nThe dangers that lurked in that pestilent draught,<br \/>\nI’d have tested for organic germs and destroyed them<br \/>\nWith potassic permanganate ere I quaffed;<br \/>\nOr perchance I’d have boiled it and afterward strained it<br \/>\nThrough filters of charcoal and gravel combined,<br \/>\nOr, after distilling, condensed and regained it<br \/>\nIn portable form with the filth left behind.<br \/>\nHow little I knew of the dread typhoid fever<br \/>\nWhich lurked in the waters I ventured to drink;<br \/>\nBut since I’ve become a devoted believer<br \/>\nIn teachings of science, I shudder to think.<br \/>\nAnd now, far removed from the scene I’m describing,<br \/>\nThe story for warning to others I tell,<br \/>\nAs memory reverts to my youthful imbibing,<br \/>\nAnd I gag at the thought of that horrible well,<br \/>\nAnd the old oaken bucket, the fungus-grown bucket\u2014<br \/>\nIn fact, the slop bucket that hung in the well.<br \/>\n\u2014J. 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