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Paramaecia excrete substances which are toxic to themselves when present in their environment, and these substances are more effective when the organisms are confined in limited volumes of culture fluid.

— Lorande Loss Woodruff

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With the work of Cordus, Vesalius, and Harvey, biologists had again laid hold of the great scientific tools—observation, experiment, induction—which since have not slipped from their grasp.

Chapter VI. Biology in The Development of the Sciences (1923)

invariably consist of the elements carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur, and frequently phosphorus and iron. Examples are of the white of egg, of milk, of cereals, and of lean meat.

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