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  • Dirt and grease can build up and attract germs.

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  • The immune system can seek out and destroy disease germs, infected cells, and tumor cells.

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  • Garden ants tend not carry harmful germs or disease.

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  • Both these steps will stop you spreading germs onto cooked food.

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  • These imperfections will harbor germs leading to a very unhygienic work surface.

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  • The lid of the container screws on fairly tight, so I don't have to worry that it's going to become contaminated by the other products in my makeup bag and I'm hopeful that the lid will keep germs out as well!

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  • It claims to clear the surrounding air of allergens, pollutants and germs up to a size of .04 microns.

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  • The treaty of Amiens had contained germs which ensured its dissolution at no distant date; but even more serious was the conduct of Bonaparte after the conclusion of peace.

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  • You can also include a grocery cart cover to make sure the new baby is protected from germs when he's out and about shopping with his parents.

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  • Colds and Flu-By encouraging perspiration, ginger may help individuals detoxify from unwanted germs and overcome illness.

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  • Michael Jackson - The legendary artist had aviophobia, a fear of flying, and some speculate that his fear of germs drove him to wear masks in public.

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  • Scrupulously clean the areas your dog comes in contact with the most to limit his exposure to germs.

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  • Electronic Faucets help to conserve water and stop the spread of bacteria and germs.

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  • Hand Sanitizer - Organic Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer kills 99.9 percent of all known germs.

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  • Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products are made with essential oils to fight dirt and germs as well as give your home a lovely scent.

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  • Using UV light to kill germs is not new technology.

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  • You can try adjusting the straps and pads on your mask for a better fit, and wash your mask every day with warm water and soap to remove oil, dirt, and germs.

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  • Unlike other solutions, Clear Care uses hydrogen peroxide to kill any germs that may be in your contacts.

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  • A used cell phone or cell phone headset can be heavily contaminated with a lot of germs and bacteria.

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  • Parents should change their child's toothbrush three to four times a year and after every illness to avoid bacteria and germs.

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  • This method reduces the chances of a falsely elevated white cell count caused by a traumatic tap (bleeding into the subarachnoid space at the puncture site), and contamination of the bacterial culture by skin germs or flora.

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  • A person with OCD, for example, may be obsessed with germs and may counteract this obsession with continual hand washing.

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  • Urine cultures to identify the infecting germs will be repeated frequently until the problem is corrected.

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  • Over time, the infecting germs develop resistance to most treatments, especially the safer ones.

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  • Parent should educate their children about good personal hygiene to avoid spreading the germs that cause colds and bronchiolitis.

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  • Parents worry that as the security object becomes dirty, it will spread germs.

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  • Antibodies are chemicals produced by the immune system in response to substances such as germs and other potentially harmful substances.

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  • Clean bathroom surfaces, disinfected toys, and prompt washing of soiled clothes in hot water also help prevent the spread of infectious germs.

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  • Typical obsessions include fears of dirt, germs, contamination, and violent or aggressive impulses.

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  • In this instance the phobia is fear of disease germs present on commonly handled objects.

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  • Together these four arsenals of immune defense guard the major entrance to the body from foreign invaders, the germs we breathe and eat.

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  • To make matters worse, the sponge-like structure of these hypertrophied glands can produce safe havens for germs where the body cannot reach and eliminate them.

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  • The cut of the suit means serious exposure to germs that can become imbedded in the elastic.

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  • It is also said to protect against many ailments and diseases if taken regularly by killing germs before they have a chance to cause illness.

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  • It can also help you to get rid of those illnesses more quickly as your body becomes better equipped to fight germs.

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  • Both vacuums offer a HEPA filtration system, and a UV light that works to kill germs, bacteria, flea eggs, dust mites, and mold on your floors.

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  • They also reduce smells and cut down on germs and bacteria, making your home a cleaner, healthier place.

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  • Air purifiers use a filter to process the air that will trap germs and allergy causing dust.

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  • The basic ProShield model purifies the air in a 12' x 18' foot room, captures allergens and germs, requires no filter replacement, reduces volatile organic compounds and eliminates odors.

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  • Like most air purifiers, all the Ionic Purifiers work to clean rooms of dust and particles that cause allergies, bacteria and germs that can cause illness, and strong odors.

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  • Every time we open the doors to our homes, we let in germs, bacteria and other irritants that can cause asthma attacks, colds and eye and sinus infections.

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  • Most homes are filled with microbes including germs, viruses, bacteria and mold and particulates like allergens, dust, dust mites and pet dander.

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  • Eliminate the risk of exposure to fungi, dirt and germs by slipping on these convenient, disposable slippers.

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  • They do not like germs, and they will wash their hands several times a day.

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  • When toddlers are cruising outside, it is necessary to protect their little feet from the weather as well as from rough surfaces, glass, and germs.

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  • Germs, climate and gravity were all assigned supernatural characteristics by humans until science eventually caught up and explained these "strange" things.

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  • If you could, you'd walk around barefoot all the time and never worry about germs, dirt or any of the many other concerns that inevitably stop you from actually doing it.

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  • Autoclaves provide heat disinfection through the use of steam and pressure to kill germs and bacteria in even the smallest areas of your equipment you couldn't possibly reach yourself.

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  • Your skin is your first line of defense against bacterial invasion, so poking holes in it is like opening a door and inviting germs in.

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  • Wash your hands before putting your fingers in your mouth to lessen the transference of germs.

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  • Surface Cleaning - Wipe down kitchen and bathroom surfaces with a spray cleaner that kills germs.

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  • It is typical for produce shippers to treat fruits and vegetables with a wax to seal them for freshness, but that same wax also seals in dirt, bacteria and germs.

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  • Our food wash helps remove the wax, the bacteria, the germs and it doesn't affect the taste.

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  • Hand washing is one of the simplest yet most effective ways to prevent illness and spreading germs to other people.

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  • The California Podiatric Medical Association warns against relying on ultraviolet sterilizers, because they may not kill all the germs.

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  • Nail biting spreads germs and can infect the nail bed.

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  • Lab coats are worn to maintain a sterile environment and will add another layer of protection against germs or other medical contaminants.

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  • Scrubs also help to provide a clean, sanitary environment for both the animals you work with and the people with whom you come into contact by reducing the potential for the spread of germs.

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  • If your clothes are soiled, there is a risk that another animal could pick up viruses or germs from your previous patients.

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  • We look in vain, therefore, for much more than the germs and principles of Presbyterianism in the churches of the first Reformers.

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  • The notion that all the kinds of animals and plants may have come into existence by the growth and modification of primordial germs is as old as speculative thought; but the modern scientific form of the doctrine can be traced historically to the influence of several converging lines of philosophical speculation and of physical observation, none of which go further back than the 17th century.

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  • It was not without secret satisfaction, therefore, that Prince Gorchakov watched the repeated defeats of the Austrian army in the Italian campaign of 1859, and he felt inclined to respond to the advances made to him by Napoleon III.; but the germs of a Russo-French alliance, which had come into existence immediately after the Crimean War, ripened very slowly, and they were completely destroyed in 1863 when the French emperor wounded Russian sensibilities deeply by giving moral and diplomatic support to the Polish insurrection.

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  • Such systems have been elaborated chiefly by modern thinkers, but the germs of the ideas are found widely spread in the older Oriental philosophies and in pre-Christian European thought.

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  • Are these invisible germs which cause fermentation always present in the atmosphere?

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  • In the interior of the grape, in the healthy blood, no such germs exist; crush the grape, wound the flesh, and expose them to the ordinary air, then changes, either fermentative or putrefactive, run their course.

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  • Other flies act as diseasecarriers, including the mosquitoes (Anopheles), which not only carry malarial germs, but also form a secondary host for these parasites.

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  • The miraculous germs always exist alongside other germs in a sort of sheath, like hidden springs in a machine, and emerge into the light when their time comes."

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  • The difficulties which had arisen between Isaac Angelus and Frederick Barbarossa contain the germs of the Fourth Crusade; the negotiations between Richard and Saladin contain the germs of the Sixth.

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  • But it must remain possible that contact with new scenes and persons, and especially such controversial necessities as are exemplified in Colossians, stimulated Paul to work out more fully, under the influence of Alexandrian categories, lines of thought of which the germs and origins must be admitted to have been present in earlier epistles.

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  • The soul's destiny upon earth is to develop those perfections the germs of which are eternally implanted in it, and it ultimately must return to the infinite source from which it emanated.

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  • The ticks (Ixodes) are not only injurious as blood-suckers, but are now credited with carrying the germs of Texas cattle-fever, just as mosquitoes carry those of malaria.

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  • The real germs of Realism and Nominalism are to be found in the 9th century, in scattered commentaries and glosses upon the statements of Porphyry and Boetius.

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  • The germs of Rationalism were unquestionably present in several of Abelard's opinions, and still more so, the traditionalists must have thought, in his general attitude towards theological questions.

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  • Ladislaus planted large Petcheneg colonies in Transylvania and the trans-Dravian provinces, and established military cordons along the constantly threatened south-eastern boundary, the germs of the future banates 1 (bansagok) which were to play such an important part in the national defence in the following century.

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  • The germs of the theory of determinants are to be found in the works of Leibnitz; Etienne Bezout utilized them in 1764 for expressing the result obtained by the process of elimination known by his name, and since restated by Arthur Cayley.

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  • In the first hybrid generation formed by the union of the reproductive germs of the positive variety (that possessing the structural character selected for observation) with those of the negative variety, it is not surprising that all or nearly all the individuals were found to exhibit, as a result of the mixture, the positive character.

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  • Florence frequently waged war with these nobles and with other cities on its own account, although in the name of the countess, and the citizens began to form themselves into groups and associations which were the germs of the arti or gilds.

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  • D, An adult redia, containing a daughter-redia, two almost mature cercariae, and germs. E, A free cercaria.

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  • By these paths the germs of Asiatic plants were carried over to join the endemic flora of the country, and all found suitable homes amid greatly varying conditions of climate and physiography.

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  • They retained the belief that the germs of all things slept for ages within the dark flood, personified as Min or NU.

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  • In these two conceptions, justice and war, lie the germs of the later idea of Jupiter as the embodiment of the life of the Roman people both in their internal organization and in their external relations.

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  • The reports of Venetian and Florentine ambassadors at this epoch contain the first germs of an attempt to study politics from the point of view of science.

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  • Thus the germs of all the chief works carried on by his monks in later ages were to be found in his own monastery.

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  • Even before this, the earliest germs can be traced back into the revolutionary period itself - the movement characterized above had begun working in France on the same lines; and, as it showed great zeal for the increase of the papal authority, it received the support of the Curia.

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  • In the latter division of plants he could not detect stamens and pistils, and he did not investigate the mode in which their germs were produced.

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  • The origin of the Cossack state is still somewhat obscure, but the germs of it are visible as early as the beginning of the 16th century.

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  • In short, there is the greatest difficulty in freeing milk on a large scale from germs without at the same time seriously prejudicing its flavour and nutritive value.

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  • And there is another important passage which shows why, in spite of its natural and occasional character, the epistle exhibits the germs of that essential quality which caused all the books of the New Testament to be so highly estimated.

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  • In other cases gall-stones set up irritation in the gall-bladder which runs on to inflammation, and the gall-bladder being infected by septic germs from the intestine (bacilli coli) an abscess forms.

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  • At fifteen he was a man, resolute, spirited, enterprising, with the germs of many talents and virtues, but rough, reckless and very imperfectly educated.

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  • His first separate publication was Meteorological Observations and Essays (1793), which contained the germs of several of his later discoveries; but in spite of the originality of its matter, the book met with only a limited sale.

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  • He was by turns naturalist, lyrist and symbolist; and it has been claimed that the germs of all the later developments in Belgian letters may be traced in his work.

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  • The spread of Hellenic culture among the Sicels had in return made a Greek home for many Sicel beliefs, traditions and customs. Bucolic poetry is the native growth of Sicily; in the hands of Theocritus it grew out of the germs supplied by Epicharmus and Sophron into a distinct and finished form of the art.

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  • Owing to the uncompromising character of the Mahommedan religion and the contemptuous attitude of the dominant race, the subject nationalities underwent no process of assimilation during the four centuries of Turkish rule; they retained not only their language but their religion, manners and peculiar characteristics, and when the power of the central authority waned they still possessed the germs of a national existence.

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  • The years1737-1739saw the germs of civil war beginning to take active life.

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  • At the same time it traces the birth of feudalism from the germs of the Gallo-Roman personal comitatus; and shows how the bond that united the different parties was the contract of the fief; and how, after a slow growth of three centuries, feudalism was definitely organized in the 12th century.

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  • Its geographical distribution is of the widest, and its rapidity of breeding, in manure and dooryard filth, so great that, as a carrier of germs of disease, especially cholera and typhoid, the house-fly is now recognized as a potent source of danger; and various sanitary regulations have been made, or precautions suggested, for getting rid of it.

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  • If on one or two points, as, for instance, the invocation of saints, some germs of subsequent Roman teaching may be discovered, there is a want of anything like the doctrine of indulgences or of compulsory private confession.

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  • The germs of rival systems can be traced in the old military and other service tenures of Assam, and in the poll tax of Burma, &c. The exclusive development of the land system is due to two conditions, - a comparatively high state of agriculture and an organized plan of administration, - both of which are supplied by the primitive village community.

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  • There were other theories also, indeed the germs of all later theories existed even in the second century, but this one prevailed.

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  • The evidence showed that it had been much too readily believed that the tetanus germs had entered the fluid before the bottle was opened, and that a grave injustice had been done to Mr Haffkine.

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  • While, on one hand, he combines much that had been suggested by Parmenides, Pythagoras and the Ionic schools, he has germs of truth that Plato and Aristotle afterwards developed; he is at once a firm believer in Orphic mysteries, and a scientific thinker, precursor of the physical scientists.

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  • With the first germs of this great conception in his mind, Bacon left the university.

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  • In so far as tribal eminence depends on superior skill or courage or wisdom, the germs of ethical differentiation may be discovered even here.

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  • His father, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, the youngest of a family to which the mother had brought the germs of mental malady, was a man of strong will and originality, and so proud of the independence of his native town that when Danzig in 1793 surrendered to the Prussians he and his whole establishment withdrew to Hamburg.

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  • Pasteur found that the germs of anthrax could be cultivated outside the body and their virulence weakened either by growing them at too high a temperature or in an unsuitable medium.

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  • The presence of foreign germs, which may gain the upper hand and totally destroy the flavours of butter and cheese, has led to the search for those particular forms to which the approved properties are due.

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  • Quite distinct is the search for the germs which cause undesirable changes, or " diseases "; and great strides have been made in discovering the bacteria concerned in rendering milk " ropy," butter " oily " and " rancid," &c. Cheese in its numerous forms contains myriads of bacteria, and some of these are now known to be concerned in the various processes of ripening and other changes affecting the product, and although little is known as to the exact part played by any species, practical applications of the discoveries of the decade 1890-1900 have been made, e.g.

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  • The practical effect of the bactericidal action of solar light is the destruction of enormous quantities of germs in rivers, the atmosphere and other exposed situations, and experiments have shown that it is especially the pathogenic bacteria - anthrax, typhoid, &c. - which thus succumb to lightaction; the discovery that the electric arc is very rich in bactericidal rays led to the hope that it could be used for disinfecting purposes in hospitals, but mechanical difficulties intervene.

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  • Only in a few isolated cases has any contamination been traced to fever or other zymotic germs. In this connexion it is worth noting that the infectious diseases hospital has a separate system of drainage which is carefully disinfected, and not allowed to be employed for the purposes of manure.

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  • There came a time, however, when Clement and more particularly his following had to acknowledge the vanity of these illusive dreams; and before his death, which took place on the 16th of September 1394, he realized the impossibility of overcoming by brute force an opposition which was founded on the convictions of the greater part of Catholic Europe, and discerned among his adherents the germs of disaffection.

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  • Lastly, still following the main lines of human culture, the primitive germs of religious institutions have to be traced in the childish faith and rude rites of savage life, and thence followed in their expansion into the vast systems administered by patriarchs and priests, henceforth taking under their charge the precepts of morality, and enforcing them under divine sanction, while also exercising in political life an authority beside or above the civil law.

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  • It is an interesting and important fact that the newly hatched young of certain species, Margaropus annulatus for instance, before it has fed, if produced by a female carrying the germs of spirillosis, can infect healthy organisms with the disease.

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  • Even in the whalebone whales their germs are formed in the same manner and at the same period of life as in other mammals, and even become partially calcified, although they never rise above the gums, and completely disappear before birth.

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  • The germs were Jewish; but, transported to a new soil, and watered with a new enthusiasm, they assumed new forms. These cannot claim the merit of correctness, but they are works of religious genius.

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  • In 1 839 he wrote a treatise L' Utilite de la celebration du dimanche which contained the germs of his revolutionary ideas.

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  • But the great founder of celestial mechanics employed a geometrical method, ill-adapted to lead to the desired result; and hence his efforts to construct a lunar theory are of more interest as illustrations of his wonderful power and correctness in mathematical reasoning than as germs of new methods of research.

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  • This work, the germs of which had appeared during the two preceding years in the journals of Schweigger and Poggendorff, has exerted most important influence on the whole development of the theory and applications of current electricity, and Ohm's name has been incorporated in the terminology of electrical science.

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  • While the All-Father belief is common in the tribes of southeastern Australia, the tribes round Lake Eyre, the Arunta (as known to Messrs Spencer and Gillen), and the other central and northern tribes, are credited with no germs of belief in what is called a supreme, and may truly be styled a superior being.

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  • In the second period (1685-1715) all the germs of decadence weredeveloped until the moment of final dissolution.

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  • The fifth book contains properties of normals and their envelopes, thus embracing the germs of the theory of evolutes, and also maxima and minima problems, such as to draw the longest and shortest lines from a given point to a conic; the sixth book is concerned with the similarity of conics; the seventh with complementary chords and conjugate diameters; the eighth book, according to the restoration of Edmund Halley, continues the subject of the preceding book.

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  • The action of tannic acid is strictly local, and depends upon its power of precipitating albumen and of destroying germs. It thus acts as an astringent on all mucous membranes.

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  • In specific germ diseases a similar antitoxin forms, and in cases which recover it counteracts the toxin, while the germs are destroyed by the tissues.

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  • Salicylic acid makes it easier for the anti-septic ingredients to kill the germs around the blackhead and prevents the blackhead from reforming.

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  • These cells start to destroy other cells, treating them like invading germs rather than part of the body.

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  • Allow to thoroughly dry - this will also help to destroy any germs left behind by the flood.

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  • People of any age can carry these germs for days, weeks or months without becoming at all unwell.

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  • I am starting a bit late due to my charming young children spreading nasty germs around the family.

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  • The hand rub we provide kills 99.9% of common germs.

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  • However, with the BioKab's specially impregnated surface this cross-contamination is eliminated and germs will not survive.

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  • You will often hear people call microbes - GERMS.

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  • It was simply reeking with cholera germs, having a mud floor that had become saturated with filth.

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  • Step 9 The milker then sprays the cows teats with a mild disinfectant to prevent any germs entering the teats.

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  • At the same time we may find expressed in figurative language the germs of thoughts which enter into still newer doctrines of evolution.

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  • The two parts of Bonnet's hypothesis, namely, the doctrine that all living things proceed from pre-existing germs, and that these contain, one enclosed within the other, the germs of all future living things, which is the hypothesis of " emboitement," and the doctrine that every germ contains in miniature all the organs of the adult, which is the hypothesis of evolution or development, in the primary senses of these words, must be carefully distinguished.

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  • His peculiar Christology was based upon profound theological and anthropological ideas, which contain the germs of some recent theological and Christological speculations.

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  • He was in Paris soon after the July Revolution, and made the acquaintance of the leading spirits among the younger men; in his discussion of their proposals we find the germs of many thoughts afterwards more fully developed in his Representative Government.

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  • In England, multiple algebra was developed by j ames Joseph Sylvester, who, in company with Arthur Cayley, expanded the theory of matrices, the germs of which are to be found in the writings of Hamilton (see above, under (B); and Quaternions).

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  • Since, then, the destruction of the hardy germs is so difficult, the greater care should be taken, by washing the udder, hands and milk vessels, to secure extreme cleanliness in the preparation of milk intended for infant consumption.

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  • Though this may dishearten the systematist, Scourfield (1900) reminds us that " It was in a water-flea that Metschni koff first saw the leucocytes (or phagocytes) trying to get rid of disease germs by swallowing them, and was so led to his epochmaking discovery of the part played by these minute amoeboid corpuscles in the animal body."

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  • The early practice of writing the initial lines or even the entire text of a volume in gold or coloured inks, and of staining with purple and of gilding the vellum, while it undoubtedly enhanced the decorative aspect, does not properly fall within the scope of this article; it concerns the material rather than the artistic element of the MS. (See Manuscripts, Palaeography.) It will be seen, then, that in the earliest examples of book decorations we find the germs of the two lines on which that decoration was destined to develop in the illuminated MSS.

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  • Shopping Cart Seat Guard-You can protect your baby from all of those nasty germs left on shopping carts by covering the seat area with a shopping cart guard.

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  • This could also reduce the amount of germs and illnesses your children are exposed to, meaning fewer doctor visits.

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  • If a household member has a cold, cough or tummy bug, then attention to general hygiene practices could help avoid the risk of spreading unwanted germs.

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  • A simple cleaning of toys and pacifiers regularly can make a difference when it comes to avoiding the spread of germs.

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  • They worry about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), germs, car seat safety, the family dog, family cat, neighbors, pedophiles, baby's eating habits and more.

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  • Thereafter, sterilization is not necessary and in fact exposure to most germs -which are harmless- is important for our immunity to develop over time.

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  • Animal shelters bring in animals from all over, which means that your new kitten may have been exposed to a myriad of germs.

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  • Howie Mandel - Television host and funny man Mandel has mysophobia, a fear of germs.

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  • Otherwise, they could pick up unwanted germs.

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  • This is a sure way to transfer germs and/or mites from one ear to the other.

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  • If you own a hunting or sporting dog that spends a lot of time in streams and creeks, it is a good idea to rinse his paws when returning from the field to remove possible infectious germs.

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  • Remember that a greenhouse is basically a plant nursery where germs can spread like wildfire.

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  • The most commonly responsible germs are viruses that are members of the herpes family.

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  • Air purifiers clean the air of allergens, germs, and bacteria, which can keep your family healthier.

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  • Do not blow on the wound, because you may blow germs onto it.

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  • These investigators regarded yeast as a plant, and Meyer gave to the germs the systematic name of "Saccharomyces" (sugar fungus).

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  • Here we see the germs of Mendelssohn's Pragmatism, to use the now current term.

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  • In the case of some of these legends - as those of Sunah-Sepha, and the fetching of Soma from heaven - we can even see how they have grown out of germs contained in some of the Vedic hymns.

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  • Nothing really new is produced in the living world, but the germs which develop have existed since the beginning of things; and nothing really dies, but, when what we call death takes place, the living thing shrinks back into its germ state.3 et celle des especes.

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  • Those germs which do not ripen during the season undergo a process of resorption, and in the winter the whole ovary dwindles to often a diminutive size.

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  • Fortunately at Arbois he came under the influence of an excellent teacher in the person of the director of the college, who must have discerned in the quiet boy the germs of greatness, as he constantly spoke to him of his future career at the Ecole normale in Paris.

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  • The controversy on this question was waged with spirit on both sides; but in the end Pasteur came off victorious, and in a series of the most delicate and most intricate experimental researches he proved that when the atmospheric germs are absolutely excluded no changes take place.

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  • The germs of analytical chemistry are to be found in the writings of the pharmacists and chemists of the iatrochemical period.

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  • The sentiments it created were not only favourable to the humane treatment of the class in the of present, but were the germs out of which its entire libera- of was destined, at a later period, in part to arise.

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  • He enjoyed a triple wergeld, but had no definite salary, being remunerated by the receipt of certain revenues, a system which contained the germs of discord, on account of the confusion of his public and private 1 The changing language of this epoch speaks of civitates, subsequently of pagi, and later of comitatus (counties).

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  • Thus it will be seen that the doctrines of these early reformers contained the germs of the later Sikh religion.

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  • At the same time there was a certain healthy aspect in the cultivation of the Meistergesang among the German middle classes of the 15th and 16th centuries; the Meistersinger poetry, if not great or even real poetry, had - especially in the hands of a poet like Hans Sachs - many germs of promise for the future.

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  • The germs of an indigenous literature had existed at an early period in Rome and in the country districts of Italy, and they have an importance as indicating natural wants in the Italian race, which were ultimately satisfied by regular literary forms. The art of writing was first employed in the service of the state and of religion for books of ritual, treaties with other states, the laws of the Twelve Tables and the like.

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  • But it was rather in the chants and litanies of the ancient religion, such as those of the Salii and the Fratres Arvales, and the dirges for the dead (neniae), and in certain extemporaneous effusions, that some germs of a native poetry might have been detected; and finally in the use of Saturnian verse, a metre of pure native origin, which by its rapid and lively movement gave expression to the vivacity and quick apprehension of the Italian race.

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  • Good whisky is made in Maryland and in parts of Pennsylvania from rye, but all efforts in other states to produce from Indian corn a whisky equal to the Bourbon have failed, and it is probable that the quality of the Bourbon is largely due to the character of the Kentucky lime water and the Kentucky yeast germs. The average annual product of the state from 1880 to 1900 was about 20,000,000 gallons; in 1900 the product was valued at $9,786,527; in 1905 at $11,204,649.

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  • The Gall-bladder may be ruptured by external violence, and if bile escapes from the rent in considerable quantities peritonitis will be set up, whether the bile contains septic germs or not.

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  • One practical outcome of these researches is the method now always adopted of sterilizing by a succession of gentle warmings, sufficient to kill the developed micro-organisms, instead of by one fierce heating attempting to attack the more refractory undeveloped germs of the same.

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  • But if there lay in this revival of energy and character the germs of a vigorous national life, for the time being Spain was thrown hack into the state of division from which it had been drawn by the Romanswith the vital difference that the race now possessed the tradition of the Roman law, the municipalities, and one great common organization in the Christian Church.

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  • Ash is cleaning agent which kills germs on handling.

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  • Pregnant hints are given respecting a natural development of language which has its germs in sounds of quadrupeds and birds, of religious ideas out of dreams and waking hallucinations, and of the art of music by help of the suggestion of natural sounds.

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  • There is strong evidence at all events that many of the conceptions are contrary to historical fact, and the points of similarity between native Canaanite cult and Israelite worship are so striking that only the persistent traditions of Israel's origin and of the work of Moses compel the conclusion that the germs of specific Yahweh worship existed from his day.

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  • So long as the epidermis of animals remains sound, disease germs may come in contact with it almost with impunity, but immediately on its being fissured, or a larger wound made through it, the underlying parts, the blood and soft tissues, are attacked by them.

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  • In like manner the evil which one does in the interval of a day prevents the germs of virtues which began to spring up again from developing themselves and destroys them.

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