Note 5 — A CYCLOPÆDIA OF PRACTICAL RECEIPTS, PROCESSES, AND COLLATERAL INFORMATION
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It has generally been asserted that this substance contains vibriones, and other low forms of organised life; but Mulder describes it, under the name mycoderma aceti, as a plant of the order ‘fungi.’ It is formed at the expense of the constituents of the vinegar, and often causes whole vats of it to pass into water.