salivates over ashes



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my feelings of panic had been moulded by such superstitions of science as the hundreds of thousands of whooping cough germs borne by the spring breezes, the hundreds of thousands of eye destroying bacteria which infest public baths, the hundreds of thousands of microbes in a barber shop which will cause baldness, the swarms of scabious parasites in the leather straps in the subway cars. or the tapeworm and fluke and heaven knows what eggs that undoubtedly lurk in raw fish and in undercooked beef and pork;





there is no disputing the fact the accurate scientific fact that millions of germs are floating swimming wriggling everywhere


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