Protists and Disease
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to have discovered the parasitic micro-organisms of molluscum contagiosum, syphilis, cancer, rabies, smallpox, carcinoma (or at least "cancer"), and a few other diseased conditions. If imagination has run riot among the Entamocbac, and made havoc of the affinities of the Haemosporidia, when it comes to the " Clilainydozoa " it seems to become entirely divorced from reason. The history of protozoology of recent years is one of the correction of earlier, wild, and impossible views by distinguished, methodical and very careful workers. One may at once admit that certain diseases, including variola and rabies, are due to filtrable viruses : that
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