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we all know.
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It is strange that what it implies,
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in the case of diseases,
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should be so seldom recognized until now."
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Or there was Pierre Bretonneau, who believed that
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there were morbid seeds that caused special diseases,
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just as every seed--in the natural history,
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that is--gives rise to a determined species.
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And he applied that idea to diphtheria.
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Just so as apples don't turn into wheat--
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apples seeds into wheat--
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so too endemic diarrhea