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Definition of Flyspecks
1. flyspeck [v] - See also: flyspeck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyspecks
Literary usage of Flyspecks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Body at Work by Frances Gulick Jewett (1910)
"Those flies then deposited their flyspecks, and fifteen days later Dr. Lord examined
the specks and found living tubercle bacilli in them. ..."
2. Health and Cleanliness by Michael Vincent O'Shea, John Harvey Kellogg (1915)
"Dr. Koch, a German scientist, found the living bacteria of tuberculosis in
flyspecks on a chandelier in a house where a man having that disease had lived. ..."
3. The Body and Its Defenses by Frances Gulick Jewett (1910)
"Those flies then deposited their flyspecks, and fifteen days later Dr. Lord examined
the specks and found living tubercle bacilli in them. ..."
4. Physiology, Pathology, Bacteriology, Anatomy (1906)
"It was found that flies may ingest sputum and excrete tubercle bacilli and that
these remain virulent in the flyspecks as long as 15 days. ..."
5. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The danger of human infection from tubercular flyspecks is by the injection of
... Spontaneous liberation of tubercle bacilli from flyspecks is unlikely. ..."
6. The Sources and modes of infection by Charles Value Chapin (1916)
"Lord2 found virulent bacilli in flyspecks, but could not induce the disease by
causing guinea pigs to breathe air drawn over infected specks. ..."
7. Physiology, Hygiene and Sanitation by Frances Gulick Jewett (1916)
"Those flies WHERE FLIES MULTIPLY then deposited their flyspecks, and fifteen days
later Dr. Lord examined the specks and found living tubercle bacilli in ..."
8. Physiology, Hygiene and Sanitation by Frances Gulick Jewett (1916)
"Those microbes of tuberculosis had been taken into the mouth of the fly, had gone
safely through its body, were alive when they left the body as flyspecks, ..."
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