These innocent amusements could scarcely have injured my robust frame, yet when some unusual misfortune happens it is a trait of human nature to seek its first germ in the past.
In the first place, market eggs have no business being fertilized, but whether they are or not they should be kept in a place sufficiently cool to prevent all germ growth.
Rotten eggs may be of different kinds, according to the species of germ that causes the decomposition.
Twenty-four hours: The germ spot mottled and about the size of a dime.
At this temperature the development is about as follows: Twelve hours incubation: When broken in a saucer, the germ spot, visible upon all eggs, seems somewhat enlarged.
This egg, if not too dark shelled, can readily be detected with the candle, the germ spot causing the yolk to appear considerably darker than the yolk of a fresh egg.
Now, for some reason, perhaps due to the belief that white diarrhoea was caused by a germ in the egg, this idea of washing with Zenoleum was conceived to be a possible solution of the incubator problem.
Blood appears at about this period, but is difficult of detection by the candler, unless the germ dies and the blood ring sticks to the membrane of the egg.
Fertile eggs, at the time of laying, cannot be told from infertile eggs, as the germ of the chick is microscopic in size.
If the egg is immediately cooled and held at a temperature below 70 degrees, the germ will not develop.
Morse of the Bureau of Animal Industry to the effect that white diarrhoea is caused by an intestinal parasite similar to the germ that causes human dysentery.
The pores in the egg shell proper are large enough to admit all forms of bacteria, but the membrane inside the shell is germ proof as long as it remains dry.
Infertile eggs cannot heat because the germ has not been fertilized and can make no growth.
The specific germ is thought to have been isolated and its connection with the disease demonstrated in the laboratory.
There seems reason to believe that in such an animal, "killed to save its life," the specific paratyphoid germ is present as an infection before death.
In all animals and plants above the lowest the germ is a nucleated cell, using that term in its broadest sense; and the first step in the process of the evolution of the individual is the division of this cell into two or more portions.
In all instances which have yet been investigated, the substance of this germ has a peculiar chemical composition, consisting of at fewest four elementary bodies, viz.
The definition of a germ as "matter potentially alive, and having within itself the tendency to assume a definite living form," appears to meet all the requirements of modern science.
And the qualification of "potential" has the advantage of reminding us that the great characteristic of the germ is not so much what it is, but what it may, under suitable conditions, become.
Footnote: In some cases of sexless multiplication the germ is a cell-aggregate--if we call germ only that which is already detached from the parent organism.
He, accordingly, constructed a very ingenious apparatus to enable him to accomplish the trapping of the "germ dust" in the air.
The consequence of this intussusceptive growth is the "development" or "evolution" of the germ into the visible bird.
Again, a true germ is either devoid of any structure discernible by optical means, or, at most, it is a simple nucleated cell.
Here was the germ of a conflict which might one day shake the republic to its foundations.
Her dexterity in tossing him the letter, unseen by Madame Marini, might have frightened him and given him a dread, that albeit woman, there was germ of wickedness in her.
In all man does there is that germ from which evil may ever spring, while the works of God are always beautiful in themselves, and excellent in their purpose.
I had watched you from your infancy, and I had fancied that amongst the many faults and errors, from which youth is never exempt, I perceived the germ of great and shining qualities of heart and mind.
The germof this Poem was four lines composed as a part of the verses on the Highland Girl.
There must be no compromise with treason, but the surest death to Bolshevism is exposure of the germ of the disease itself to the sunlight of public view.
It is our expressed belief that any doctrine which inveighs against both God and government is a poisonous germ in human thought and must be treated as a menace to the morality and the progress of the world.
Thus far we have elaborated the plan of the psychic apparatus; these two systems are the germ of the Unc.
But with Brünnhilda's announcement to Sieglinda we get the great lyrical Wagner, we get the germ of the magnificent harangue of the last act of the Dusk of the Gods, and we get the mightiest of the Siegfried themes.
One may say truly that once the germ of the dramatic action was in Wagner's brain he needed the musico-pictorial inspiration of the scenic environment and atmosphere before the thing took final shape and he could compose the music.
In recent years, however, his views on this subject had undergone a complete revolution--a revolution that began with the establishment of the germ theory of disease.
It supposes many such creations, each having in its own peculiar germ the characteristic type of organism that will distinguish the mature animal from all the others.
One of these conclusions is that, in the formation of the germ which becomes developed into the fœtus, the male and female parent each contributes some cellular substance to the compound which constitutes that germ.
This compound resultant germ, in the earliest stage of its formation, like the separate cells of which it is a union, exhibits no visible difference when we compare the ante-fœtal germ of one animal with that of a different animal.
It does not heat the box and, being a germ killer, it purifies everything it touches.
In order to take this disease there must first be the poison germ and then this enters into the system, generally through water that contains the germ, milk, oysters and other foods, etc.
Filth, improper drainage and poor ventilation favor the preservation of the bacillus germ and lower the power of resistance in those exposed.
She will be so horrified if shown dates, prunes, or figs that are germ infested that she will take special pains in washing them.
Oats, barley, and rye may carry the germ to the animals.
This germ enters into the system, as stated below, locates itself in different organs, especially in the small intestine.
Erysipelas is an infectious disease, and it is usually caused by a germ which we call "streptococcus pyogenes.
The germ causing tuberculosis leaves the body of the person who has the disease by means of the discharges; by the sputum coughed up from the lungs, by nasal discharge, by bowel excrement, by urine, by abscesses.
We have the germ in culture now and will maintain it, and anyone who discovers a new variety, or has an old one they would like to propagate, can communicate with us, and we will take pleasure in testing its susceptibility.
From these brief sketches, an idea may be formed of the germ of the newspaper press which is now one of the chief glories of our country.
The germ of this belief can apparently be found in the pictorial art and burial customs of the Aurignacian Cro-Magnons.
In ancient Egypt the green stone (Khepera) amulet "typified the germ of life".
The great doctrines of the Declaration germinated in the hearts of our fathers, and were developed under the new influences of this wilderness world, by the same subtile mystery which brings forth the rose from the germ of the rose-tree.
In a sense it is immortal, for, if not destroyed, it never loses the mysterious power of growth, and is therefore more imperishable than any seed or germ of life.
No doubt there is a germ in me of something similar that makes response.
What harm does the little residuum or germ of actuality that I leave in God do?
Once allow the mystical germto influence our beliefs, and I believe that we are in my position.
As air, by dint of its volume, will weigh like a corporeal body; so his own poor little initial perception, swathed in this gigantic envelopment of suggestive atmosphere, grows like a germ into something vastly bigger and more substantial.
I have no mystical experience of my own, but just enough of the germ of mysticism in me to recognize the region from which their voice comes when I hear it.
