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The morning sunlight played in her hair, and her deep blue eyes were as soft as the Caribbean Sea itself. "Don't attempt to wade ashore, Miss Croyden," I cried in agitation. "Pray do nothing rash. The waters are simply infested with bacilli." "But how can I get ashore?" she asked, with a smile which showed all, or nearly all, of her pearl-like teeth.
"What is a logical mind?" asked Carlotta. "It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified." "I do not understand," she said. "I should be vastly surprised if you did," I laughed. "Would you like me to marry and go away and leave you?" asked Carlotta, after a long pause.
Of course the only absolute guarantee against the bacilli of enteric fever or other diseases which may be admitted into one's system by drinking, is to boil the waters for five minutes; but it is very provoking, when the thermometer stands at 90° in the shade, to wait until the boiled water cools, and as it is impossible to boil a whole river a few thousand bacilli may quite well get into our food through "washing up".
For instance, while the guinea-pig and the rabbit could be readily inoculated with human bacilli, they could only be infected with difficulty by cultures of the bovine bacillus; while the only animal that could be inoculated at all with the avian or bird bacillus was the rabbit, and he only occasionally.
But Pasteur's discovery of the part played by bacilli not only altered profoundly the work of physicians and surgeons, but opened up the larger task of preventive medicine. The Gospel of Christ, in its endeavor to make and keep men whole, faces a similarly double labor. It has its ministry of rescue and healing for sinning men and women; it has its plan of spiritual health for society.
The tubercle bacilli are then easily recognized with a magnifying power of 400 to 500. By light pressure upon the cover glass the bacilli are easily pressed out of the masses of detritus and secretion.
Just think of those two country girls appearing in a five-reel film like 'A Rural Beauty." "Well, for goodness' sake, Bess Harley!" cried Nan, astonished, "have you been bitten by that bug?" "Don't call it 'bug' that sounds so common," objected Bess. "Call it 'bacilli of the motion picture. It must be great," she added emphatically, "to see yourself acting on the screen!"
These bacilli have been found at various times in the stomach or intestine of mosquitoes, fleas and bedbugs. So it is believed by some that these and other insects, such as lice and flies, may sometimes transmit the disease. On a previous page we have referred to the possibility of the face-mites acting as disseminators of leprosy.
Indeed, the convict was entirely inferential, and had no foundation except in the fact that the old woman's son had been born at Macquarie Harbour. Uncle Mo's impression that Van Diemen's Land was a sort of plague-spot on the planet the bacilli of the plague being convicted criminals was no doubt too well grounded.
The city piled itself high in the center, tower on tower for a nucleus, and spread itself out over the plain, mile after mile; and in its vitals, like benevolent bacilli contending with malevolent in the body of a man, missions and refuges offered what resistance they might to the saloons and all the hells that cities house and shelter.
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