Proceedings of Meetings and Symposia>Speech: Atlee, John Light (5 Jun 1883), Opening address to American Medical Association, Cleveland, Ohio, The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner, Retrieved on 2011-09-14Source Material [1883]
Folksonomies: pathology germs Memes
14 SEP 2011
Twenty Thousand Devils Playing Upon the Point of a Needle
It was a standing joke of [Dr. Chapman] to quote old Leuwenhoeck as having discovered 'twenty thousand devils playing upon the point of a needle' thus foreshadowing some of the most remarkable discoveries of the present day, especially disease germs.A quote from Leuwenhoeck taken as foreshadowing disease germs.