Throat gargles, such as listerine, or equal parts of alcohol and water, help to keep the throat in condition to resist the microbic invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

There is also fairly strong evidence that the first Viking landers of the 1970's did find some firm evidence of microbic life on the Red Planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference

At other times the danger from microbic infection is greater because there are two species introduced at the same time; and these two multiply more vigorously when together than when separated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

Orchards of fine varieties of the common chestnut may perhaps be maintained in this way until the present epidemic of Endothia has expended its protoplasmic energy, or until it has succumbed to microbic parasites of its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.] Reference

It is difficult to convince the majority of physicians, and even ourselves, that to touch a finger to a door knob, to an assistant's clothing, or to one's own body, may vitiate the entire operation by introducing one or two microbic germs into the wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

Pitts, long poisoned by the subtle microbic poison, stared at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Red Lamp] Reference

In fact, some observers hold to the microbic view of all cases of eczema.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

And as art is as impartial as a microbic disease, women do achieve, individually, as much as men; sometimes more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Living Present] Reference

Officers jostled privates, sailors vied with soldiers in the scrum before the entrance to the microbic land of tunnels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orchard of Tears] Reference

If two bodies are brought into contact with each other, it is certain that microbic particles will pass from one to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Answered Questions] Reference

Animalculae and microbic life, themselves microscopic, have their own order of sense-organs related to a world of life beyond our ken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference

The animalcule and microbic life, itself microscopic, has yet its own order of sense-organs related to a world of vitality beyond our ken.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer] Reference

Finally, he points out how necessary it is that we should respect the integrity of the leucocytes in the presence of microbic infections or intoxications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

That aspect was first discussed because it is most obvious, but the relation of natural selection to microbic disease is equally widespread and far more striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference

In many instances, either as a result of pressure or in consequence of chemical change in the sebaceous plugs or of the addition of a microbic factor, inflammation is excited and acne results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Nothing is so pitiful as the evidences of a strong individuality crushed out by an artificial educational system which makes the system itself of paramount importance and the individual of microbic significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression] Reference

These are to mankind what a certain order of microbic life is to the body of man -- organic interpreters, translating the elements of food into blood, nerve, fibre, tissue, etc., agreeably to the laws of their being.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer] Reference

The physical body of man is equipped with a corresponding order of microbic life which acts as an organic interpreter, translating the elements of food into blood, nerve, fibre, tissue and bone agreeably to the laws of their being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference

Perhaps the most weird of these attempts, and the most intensely interesting, so long as the verisimilitude is maintained, is a dream adventure in a drop of water which, through an incredible human reduction to microbic, even atomic, proportions, has become a vast tempestuous sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

Now, if our publics these last twenty years could have grasped certain social truths, not inherently more difficult to understand than the microbic theory of disease, a large part at least of the economic and political pestilences which have come upon us in our generation would not have arisen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Norman Angell - Nobel Lecture] Reference

It has already been demonstrated that 'alcoholics' suffer far more seriously from microbic affections than do those of sober life, and it is now accepted that amongst them the mortality from this class of disease is higher than amongst those who are not accustomed to take alcohol regularly or to excess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference

Elliott considers the latter disease to be of microbic origin, the result of climatic conditions, and divides the island of Hawaii into two districts, in one of which the rainfall is 150 inches annually, where bighead is very prevalent, and the second of which is dry and rarely visited by rain, where the disease is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Rossiter himself was too intent on the stars, the gases of decomposition, the hidden processes of life, miscegenation in star-fish, microbic diseases in man, beasts, birds and bees, the glands of the throat, the suprarenal capsules and the chemical origin of life to care much for æsthetics, for furniture and house decoration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference

Another line of argument by which some advocates of vegetarianism appeal to the popular judgment is by representing flesh-food derived from animals as something dirty, foul, and revolting, full of microbic germs, whilst vegetable products are extolled as being clean and sweet -- free from odour and putrescence and from the scaremonger's microbes.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

A defensive argument, as he may uphold the habit as hygienic and highly useful in preventing microbic infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference

In all cases of acute microbic infection, and especially in the suppurative forms, polynuclear leucocytes are found in the fluid; while in chronic affections, such as tubercle and syphilis, there is an excess of lymphocytes (Purves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

"Which is worse, having a boil lanced or sitting in the doctor's waiting room hour after hour, filling out forms, thumbing through those out-of-date magazines, sneezers and coughers spraying microbic wildlife at you, babies howling, hard-luck stories being traded like baseball cards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]

Women who were offered PRO2000 microbicide gel plus condoms had 30 per cent fewer HIV infections than those offered condoms only or condoms plus a placebo gel '; yahooBuzzArticleCategory =' politics '; yahooBuzzArticleType =' text '; yahooBuzzArticleId =' http://www. opednews.com/articles/Finally-anti-HIV-microbic-by-Bobby-Ramakant-090224-707. html '; document. write ( "") document. write ( "").    From Wordnik.com.  [Finally, anti-HIV microbicides research gives hope] Reference

Humour baccilophil, microbic merriment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893] Reference