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"In fact, the very term 'gnotobiosis' goes back to the March 1959 issue of the World Medical Journal-one of the many important ideas the U.N. was spawning hand over fist in those days, to the total indifference of the world at large.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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Crash rescue, after all, is a general cross mankind bears-and may have to bear for some centuries yet-in payment for the poor forethought the first interstellar explorers exercised in the practice of a science called gnotobiosis.
Anywhen Blish, James 1970
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