My still unrecorded experiences include, inter alia, war, hunting, the administration of native tribes in remote areas, rovings under special commission in those waterless regions to the north-west through which the boundary common to British and German territory runs and perhaps most interesting of all, a microscopic study of human infusoria inhabiting isolated and therefore stagnant towns and hamlets.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
He announced definitely infusoria non oriuntur generatione aequivoca-the infusoria do not originate by spontaneous generation.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
Under the term infusoria, at that time, were included all the minute organisms; so that Schwann's announcement was a definite rejection of the doctrine of spontaneous generation over thirty years before Pasteur's demonstrations finally settled the question.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh