Strange and terrible diseases attacked some of them, though the poisonous microbes were checked by vigilant men in laboratories behind the front before they could spread an epidemic.

He is quite mad for the moment about a deadly microbe which only exists in his imagination.

[Illustrations: GROUP OF FAMOUS BRAHMIN PUNDITS] Mark Twain says that there is no danger from germs in the sacred water of the Ganges, because it is so filthy that no decent microbe will live in it; and that just about describes the situation.

By what fatal microbe of folly had the French generals been tempted towards that adventure in Alsace?

In brief, science has taught us, within certain limitations, how to change the virulent germs of a few diseases into harmless microbes.

Some other chance meeting with a human machine, a mechanical device, an infinitesimal microbe that happened to be at the same place at the same time brings disaster or death.

He demonstrated, amid the attacks and calumnies of the lovers of darkness, that man is not the king of creation, but merely the last link of the zoological chain, that nature is endowed with eternal energies by which animal and plant life, the same as mineral life (for even in crystals the laws of life are at work), are transformed from the invisible microbe to the highest form, man.

His great soul was intuitively conscious of spiritual realities, and he could not understand how little soulless microbes of men and women were destitute of his deep perception.

Of course, with all the care in the world, a fellow's likely to catch things, but there's no sense in sending out invitations to a lot of miscellaneous microbes and pretending when they call that it's a surprise party.

Organic matter capable of nourishing microbes is rare, and the dryness and cold prevent any manifestation of vitality or increase.

So long as Pasteur and his disciples had not given to the world their discovery of the pathogenic microbes of all infectious diseases, such as typhoid fever, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc, more or less absurd remedies were demanded of the science of medicine.

All because of a pesky microbe with a surplus of energy.

If I had heard of the beneficent microbe to which lowed my happiness, I would have mentioned it in my prayers.

Thyroid poverty is a splendid enticement to the universal microbe.