On Slight Ailments: Their Nature and Treatment

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Blakiston, 1880 - Clinical medicine - 353 pages

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Page 34 - And in the case of the higher animals and man, at least in many instances in which low organisms are associated with morbid processes, these last are neither the cause of disease nor are they produced by it. Germs being present, will grow and multiply whenever the surrounding conditions become favorable. If these remain for a considerable time unfavorable, the germs if present remain quiescent and may at last die.
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