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A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
Quiz 1. Leeuwenhoek saw microorganisms in (a) polio sufferers (b) belly button fuzz (c) malaria victims (d) dental plaque
I wasn't wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way.
You may think a mushroom is a fungus. This is exactly like believing that a penis is a man.
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm.
When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
Sometimes I worry I'm not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.
I said it once. Now I'll say it twice. If there's two things in this world that can't be killed, it's the fungus under my sack and the Reaper of bloodydamn Mars. Haha!
Wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat
In effect, fungi do their digesting on the outside. While we tend to process our meals in the privacy of our own insides, fungi prefer to eat out.
The famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent ligh called foxfire.
Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.
A squalid phantasmagoria of breath
Sandworms ... you know I hate 'em!
I have maggots in my scrotum.
Thus the midday halt of Charnock - more's the pity! Grew a City. As the fungus sprouts chaotic from its bed, So it spread - Chance-directed, chance-erected, laid and built
Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.
was a parasite with nasty teeth,
Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health.
It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown colony was now a faint shadow of its former self ... I was sufficiently interested to pursue the subject.
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.
A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.
I'm growing mushrooms ... because I can't kill them. They just keep multiplying ... and it's like ... I'm in service to them.
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
I am very confused and it's from a very very long time....
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Already is a disease and it's spreading around the world... GLOBAL WARMING!
A pox on all meads!
Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work.
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.
Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.
porcine whipworm,
diseases of an unromantic sort,
Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.
The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,
Toads, beetles, bats.
Through trial-and-error and observable outcomes, our ancestors narrowed the field of edible mushroom candidates to just a few with remarkable, health-supporting properties.
What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing
Got my fungal foot powder? Ah, it's a lifesaver, you know. I'd effectively be disabled if it weren't for these.
Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are still discovering new potential medicines hidden within them.
Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.
Martyred plants from their shrouds. Their mouths
Everything she touched either crumbled to dust or dissolved into a powder that gave off spores. The
Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It's clever - the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.
worms and bugs. They climbed up the
Like mold on books, grow myths on history.
It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes.
The slime that accumulates on the underside of a soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
Broke a nail clean off, and when it grew back it looked like a Brazil nut.
There are people who study germs. I believe they are called Germans
Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.
I am ... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
...He was succeeded by a gentleman who gazed at the Brussels sprouts and asked if the funny little knobs on the stalks were a form of disease. I told him yes. Eczema.
Albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into
The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain
Never a cell biologist at heart, as a colleague recalled, he contaminated the cells, infected the cultures, and grew out balls of fungi in the petri dishes.
It came from the woods. Most strange things do.
Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.
Seed of a syphilitic she-camel,
Nancy Herman, my new gym partner and locker neighbor, puts her hand on my shoulder and whispers, Don't worry April. I have foot fungus too.
It was ancient and had risen from the boiling earth. It had slept, falling dormant in the dust, rising in mist. Tuberculosis had flown in a dizzy rush to unite with warm life. It was in each new world, and every old world. First it loved animals, then it loved people too.
Blood on the kitchen floor. Called
Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.
Everything that lives, it seems, must play host to the germ of its own dissolution.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN
BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses.
That dark laboratory we call the soil.
On every stem, on every leaf, ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
The damp floor of the Internet sprouted Lecter theories like toadstools and sightings of the doctor rivaled those of Elvis in number.
The air smells of something sharp and antiseptic. My
Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
The perfection of rottenness.
One gram of moss from the forest floor, a piece about the size of a muffin, would harbour 150,000 protozoa, 132,000 tardigrades, 3,000 springtails, 800 rotifers, 500 nematodes, 400 mites, and 200 fly larvae. These numbers tell us something about the astounding quantity of life in a handful of moss.
Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.
Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
Deer love mushrooms.
Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!
A most malicious cough
And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon
What you feed in yourself that grows.
The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
I'm not very domestic. For years my family thought mold was a frosting.
Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.
Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.