The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1541
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Experiments have also been tried with fungi. There are certain fungi which attack the bodies of living insects. So far, however, it cannot be said that the results have been at all satisfactory, for the propagation and infection of the living insects by fungus spores is not at all easy. There is also a certain feeling of doubt as to what may happen. Those fungi, and particularly bacteria, might set up dangerous epidemics.