Opening address to American Medical Association, Cleveland, Ohio
- Kind
- Speech
- Date
- 5 Jun 1883
- Publisher
- The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner
- Retrieved
- Sep 14, 2011
1 meme from this reference
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.