Discourses
, by Huxley, Thomas Henry- ISBN: 9781419116209 | 1419116207
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
It is a matter of everyday experience that it is difficult to prevent many articles of food from becoming covered with mould; that fruit, sound enough to all appearance, often contains grubs at the core; that meat, left to itself in the air, is apt to putrefy and swarm with maggots. Even ordinary water, if allowed to stand in an open vessel, sooner or later becomes turbid and full of living matter.