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Excerpt from Dr. Kellogg's Lectures on Practical Health Topics, Vol. 1
Pasteur discovered that the intestinal tract is swarming with bacteria. Strassburger and other more recent investigators have estimated the number of these organisms produced in the intestinal tract daily to be not less than 150,000,000,000,000, and doubtless the number is sometimes much greater. Pasteur believed and taught that these countless millions of minute organisms were useful and even necessary to the maintenance of the body in health, that they rendered valuable and essential assistance in the process of digestion. More recent studies, however, have shown that Pasteur was in error.
Levin, in the study of Arctic animals at Spitzbergen, showed that more than 53 percent of the animals in that region have no bacteria in the intestinal tract. Nuttall and Thierfelder showed that guinea pigs brought into the world by Caesarian section may be made to grow without contact with bacteria.
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