They aremicrobes rather--microbes which even the physicians can not manage with satisfaction.
She said after they'd been handled by those dirty Indian fingers she knew they were full of microbes or things and she didn't dare.
The boys weren't afraid of microbes and they ate the berries but I have the basket.
See how far we have come, from the old metaphysical ideas about virulence, to thesemicrobes that we can turn this way or that way--stuff so plastic that a man can work on it, and fashion it as he likes.
Microbes existed, but as a consequence, not a cause.
What mixed company it keeps, is shown by Houston's estimate of the number of microbes per gramme in twenty-one samples of different soils.
Nicolaier therefore studied the various microbes of the soil, and made inoculations of garden-mould under the skin of rabbits.
Virulence is a quality thatmicrobes can lose, or can acquire.
It will thus be seen that I was prepared to welcome Pasteur's demonstration that putrefaction, like other true fermentations, is caused by microbes growing in the putrescible substance.
The cost of breeding and housing two head of cattle would provide for the breeding and housing of enough microbes to inoculate the entire population of the globe since human life first appeared on it.
They conceive microbes as immortal until slain by a germicide administered by a duly qualified medical man.
Phylogenesis of new microbes Caryophanon latum and Caryophanon tenue--organisms which are intermediate between blue-green algae and the bacteria.
I'm making a little study of intestinal poisons," he commented, "poisons produced by microbes which we keep under more or less control in healthy life.
We nourish within ourselves microbes which secrete very virulent poisons, and when those poisons are too much for us- -well, we grow old.
Do you want to have the microbes blowing out here into my very face?
The next step in development would be the clustering together of these primitive microbes as they divided.
On the other hand, it accommodates among the intestinal flora many microbes which damage health by poisoning the body with their products.
It is indubitable that the intestinal microbes or their poisons may reach the system generally, and bring harm to it.
A reader who has little knowledge of such matters may be surprised by my recommendation to absorb large quantities of microbes, as the general belief is that microbes are all harmful.
Now the attempt to destroy the intestinal microbesby the use of chemical agents has little chance of success, and the intestine itself may be harmed more than the microbes.
From time immemorial human beings have absorbed quantities of lactic microbes by consuming in the uncooked condition substances such as soured milk, kephir, sauerkraut, or salted cucumbers, which have undergone lactic fermentation.
The phagocytes wont eat the microbes unless the microbes are nicely buttered for them.
Of course, I do not mean to assert that epilepsy always depends upon infection, or upon the presence of microbes in the nervous tissues.
This is readily intelligible when we remember that the ovum contains an immensely larger amount of substance than the spermatozoon, and can therefore be more frequently infected by microbes and can contain a greater number of them.
First, with regard to Brown-Sequard's results other than the production of transmitted epilepsy, Weismann allows that the hypothesis of microbes can scarcely apply.
Naturally, therefore, the hypothesis of heredity seems less probable than that of mere coincidence on the one hand, or of transmitted microbes on the other.
Wouldn't you think they'd build at least one of their big cities where microbes couldn't fatten on genius?
I suppose he is too busy with his wonderful microbes to come and see poor, commonplace creatures like us.
I fear it will be as a spook--they laugh at microbes as well as locks.
We scarcely know what services microbes may render us, yet the study of them, which has but recently been begun, has already shown, through the remarkable labors of Messrs.
Another example will show us themicrobes in activity in the earth.
Since the splendid researches of Mr. Pasteur and his pupils on fermentation and contagious diseases, the question of microbes has become the order of the day.
But we overlook the microbes in the thoughts we think.
And after getting rid of all the microbes of Fear and Worry and the bacilli of Hate, Jealousy and Envy, open wide the windows of the Mind and admit the bright Sunshine of Love, and the bracing air of Confidence and Fearlessness.
Dangerous microbes can be breathed as well as drunk into the human system.
It has been proved by tests that, so far from purifying the water, an inefficient and contaminated filter passes out water much more highly charged with microbes than it was before it entered.
Such catastrophes caused by microbes have changed the course of history.
These amounts of energy completely destroy the microbes and enzymes which normally cause food to putrefy.
Pasteurizing” with radiation to destroy most (but not all) of the microbes in meat or fruit or vegetables is accomplished with less than five per cent of the dosage required for sterilizing.
They hope in this way to foresee the new strains of pathogenic microbes that will occur naturally in order to breed resistant plants before the new diseases appear.
These were the microbes of industrial unrest which had multiplied during the dark months of the year on hotbeds that were rich, and fat, and warm.
Say--I'll swar' them two sossled microbes is holding a concert to 'emselves.
Among the friendly microbes he regards the lactic acid bacilli as most useful for this purpose.
As the visitor passes into the courtyard of the Institute, his nerves already shaky with thoughts of microbes and mad dogs, he is almost startled to see, half hidden among the trees, a man engaged in a death struggle with a wolf.
Microbes But how Is one to keep free from those mental microbes that worm-eat people's brains--those Theories and Diets and Enthusiasms and infectious Doctrines that we are always liable to catch from what seem the most innocuous contacts?
And you bet there aren't anymicrobes left on my hands.
I don't get microbesoff my face into my food," he said calmly.
One man even declared that he had seen the fatal microbes following the American doctor about, "like little dogs"; but the general belief was that he had been indulging in strong prophylactics!
The microbes of consumption and cancer are probably never far away from us, but are powerless to hurt us, till our system has become weakened by other causes.
There seems to be a precise analogy between temptation and the microbes of disease.
This filter will remove nearly or quite all of the inorganic matter held in suspension in the water, but it is not to be depended upon to remove dangerous microbes and other germs of disease.
A study of the microbesthat live in our mouth has made it possible to keep our teeth from decay.
There are social microbes no less potent and mischievous than those with which Pasteur deals.
Among these microbes some have not been studied, and the part they play in the economy of life is not known to us, while certain others have functions which have been well determined.
Modern scientists have pursued the study of disease microbes with such diligence, that they claim to be able to recognize beyond mistake the germs of certain diseases.
They find them in the atmosphere almost everywhere, and they prove that these microbes are real germs of disease, by their experiments with the lower animals.
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