Round the fountain.

Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Round the fountain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BATTLE OF FURUNCULUS. A Lay made about the year Twexty-one of the Constitution. Staphylococcus Aureus, By Gram and Koch he swore He would invade new regions Unconquered heretofore— By Gram and Koch he swore it, To take a patient’s life. And called the Cocci, young and old. From all his colonies of gold To aid him in the strife. Loud rang the warning toxins And flashed the summons forth On the distant slopes of Agar And the turbid seas of Broth ; The Cocci clustered thickly From far off lands and labs.. Cocci of ancient culture came— To come by Tube they thought no shame— But others of a fiercer fame Drove up in acne scabs. The septic hosts of Cocci Advanced in serried ranks. They marched upon the Blood Stream, And camped upon its banks ;
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