Word: bacteria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...
...Porter's warning: "In all cases with chronic sinusitis swimming and diving in fresh water and public bathing beaches should be prohibited. It is well to remember that any chlorine or other purifying agent in a pool strong enough to kill bacteria with any degree of speed is more than likely to temporarily paralyze or damage the delicate mucous membrane of the nose and sinuses, thereby tending to promote infection...
...foods make the bowels move? Drs. Olmsted & Williams decided: "The sum and substance of this physiological experiment goes to prove that the so-called 'bulk' of the human diet is not inert material going through the intestinal tract unchanged, but rather that it is acted upon by bacteria to a very great degree, and that it is these split products of bacterial action that stimulate...
...Thimann, "Bacteria: Internal Structure," Biol. Lab. A115...
...germs which are shed at every step. The appalling trail of potential infection which a restless fly leaves may be shown, the Institute stated, by causing the insect to walk across glass surfaced with sterile gelatin. Soon the footprints are visible under the microscope-outlined by teeming colonies of bacteria...