Sewage In The Buffalo River

[bowfin47]

Antony van Leeuwenhoek first observed bacteria in 1683 in his newly-made microscope (He ground the lens himself), but the first microorganism identified as the cause of a specific disease (i.e. Antrax) in 1876 by Dr. Robert Koch (1843–1910).

As a learned man of his day, Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) probably had the knowledge that the world teemed with small organisms, but like others of his day, he probably regarded this as an interesting but rather irrelevant. Besides in the 1700's, they were not called "bacteria". The term "bacteria" didn't exist until the mid-1800s.

Franklin did however, state: "Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water."

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[bobber]

update... a pump was loaned to correct the problem and is working, but this is just a temp repair!!