FEVER IN PLANTS.
i , Not only animals, but plants, , may suffer and die of fevers, is the conclusion ireachecf by the French savant Du/Sablon. When a human b3in.g has ■, a, fever he loses flesh on account of the increased combustion, the quantity of carbonic ; iacid respired from the lurig-s being augmented from 70 to IQQ per cent. A plant* attacked by a feyer, -which may ibe caused by a wound, rapidly "consumes its resegoiveis of organic matter and becomes enfeebled, sometimes 1 , sufficiently to . cause its <deatih. .Dv Sablom has experimented with potatoes rendered ferevish by cutting them. The' temperature soon rises' abou, one deigree, and tha quantity of carbonic .acid given off, increases several- hundred per cent. If the potlato survives - ' its ."respiration" after' a few .days becomes normal, but if falls .into an enf.se'bied stati©, resembling- that of a perspn convalescent from ,a ' longfever. - - m . -- -
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Grey River Argus, 18 December 1911, Page 8
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147FEVER IN PLANTS. Grey River Argus, 18 December 1911, Page 8
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