A new and revolutionary theory of bacillar disease was just put forward before the French Academy of Science in a paper by Professor Tissot. Indeed it is rather a theory of organic life itself, animal and vegetable, too difficult and complex to transmit in a brief telegram, but which is summed up in the expression: “Everything that lives is simply an organised mould” — that is to say, a mould as we meet it in uncovered decaying organic matter, the cryptogamic material which, according to Professor Tissot, is the very basis of life. Thus, any animal is biologically considered, simply the evolved organised product of an original cryptogamic mould.

Published - May 22, 2026 02:46 am IST