"Inoculate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a superstition that even if one does not die from the effects of their bites that the tarantula can inoculate a person with ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... inability to make his farewell messages of love intelligible, and the last long hours of silent pain? Yet for the sake of furnishing his disciples with a "ready reply," Dr. Cumming can prevail on himself to inoculate them with a bad-spirited falsity ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... to his pupil the tubular fangs, by means of which serpents inoculate the terrible venom with which some of them ...
— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart
... although the former has been almost constantly in one part or another of the coast. Singularly enough, the people used inoculation for this disease; and in one village, where they seem to have chosen a malignant case from which to inoculate the rest, nearly the whole village was cut off. I have seen but one case of hydrocephalus, a few of epilepsy, none of cholera or cancer, and many diseases common in England are here quite unknown. It is true that I suffered severely from ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... more than most people of your age, you have yet very little experience and knowledge of the world; now, I wish to inoculate mine upon you, and thereby prevent both the dangers and the marks of youth and inexperience. If you receive the matter kindly, and observe my prescriptions scrupulously, you will secure the future advantages ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... at the roots! Hunter neglected to inoculate The seed, for clover seed must always have Clover bacteria to make it grow, And blossom. In a thrifty field of clover The roots are studded thick with tubercles, Like little warts, made by bacteria. And somehow these bacteria ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters
... was requested to inoculate a young person, who was thought to have had the small-pox, but his parents were not quite certain; in one arm I introduced variolous matter, and in the other blood, taken as in experiment 3d. On the second day after the operation, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... not the least superstitious; because her father had taught her from infancy to pay no heed to dreams or signs; and because he had allowed no housemaid or fussy old woman to inoculate his young daughter with her own senseless and cowardly fears. Pet smiled at the momentary terror which the strange old dream had caused, closed her eyes, and addressed herself again to sleep. But, first, she drew up the weighty blankets ...
— Round the Block • John Bell Bouton
... sufficient of itself to demonstrate the parasitic nature of the affection? No; in order that the demonstration shall be complete, the bacteria must be isolated, cultivated in a state of purity in proper liquids, and then be used to inoculate animals with. If the latter die with all the symptoms of charbon, the demonstration will be complete. Davaine did, indeed, perform some experiments in inoculation that were successful, but his results were contradicted by the experiments of Messrs. Jaillard and Leplat, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 • Various |
