All 36 Uses of

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He summoned forth London laboratories, dinners on frosty evenings in Stockholm, walks on the Pincio with sunset behind the dome of San Pietro, extreme danger and overpowering disgust from excreta-smeared garments in an epidemic at Marseilles.†
Chpt 4

There will never, in any age, be an effort to end the great epidemics or the petty infections which will not have been influenced by Max Gottlieb's researches, for he was not one who tagged and prettily classified bacteria and protozoa.†
Chpt 12

He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.†
Chpt 12

He roamed the world fighting epidemics and founding institutions and making inconvenient speeches and trying new drinks.†
Chpt 16

The community at Delft had a typhoid epidemic which slackened and continually reappeared.†
Chpt 18

Martin was slightly cocky, and immediately bounded after a fine new epidemic.†
Chpt 18

When the neighborhood suddenly achieved a real epidemic of diphtheria and Martin shakily preached antitoxin, one-half of them remembered his failure to save Mary Novak and the other half clamored, "Oh, give us a rest!†
Chpt 18

You got epidemics on the brain!†
Chpt 18

I was agin you in the typhoid epidemic, when you said that seamstress was carrying the sickness around, and then you showed me up good.†
Chpt 18

…physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest—or at least to jaw at—all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.†
Chpt 19

He was coaxed into making his first speech: an address on "What the Laboratory Teaches about Epidemics" for the Sunday Afternoon Free Lecture Course of the Star of Hope Universalist Church.†
Chpt 20

I just sit and moon when you rave about your epidemics and things.†
Chpt 20

When Martin sought to show that they certainly knew very little about the superiority of fresh air to warmth in schools, about the hygienic dangers of dirty streets about the real danger of alcohol, about the value of face-masks in influenza epidemics, about most of the things they tub-thumped in their campaigns, Pickerbaugh merely became angry, and Martin wanted to resign, and saw Irving Watters again, and returned to Pickerbaugh with new zeal, and was in general as agitated and…†
Chpt 21

There's no sign of an epidemic of strep.†
Chpt 22

All right, if you want a bad epidemic here, toward the end of your campaign!†
Chpt 22

I'm not much of an executive, but I was beginning to visualize a D.P.H. that would be solid and not gaseous—that would save kids and prevent epidemics.†
Chpt 24

To have heard him asking Sondelius about his experience in plague epidemics, one would have believed that Martin found the Black Death delightful.†
Chpt 30

He had been through several epidemics, and he viewed plague with affectionate hatred.†
Chpt 30

The Surgeon General, a chap named Inchcape Jones, had replied to their cables: "No real epidemic not need help."†
Chpt 32

From waking to midnight he was too busy making phage and receiving unsolicited advice from all the Institute staff to think of the dangers of a plague epidemic, but when he went to bed, when his brain was still revolving with plans, he pictured rather too well the chance of dying, unpleasantly.†
Chpt 32

The epidemic in St. Hubert must have increased, for on the day before the McGurk Commission sailed, Dr. Inchcape Jones declared that the island was quarantined.†
Chpt 32

Once we go ashore, we'll be practically prisoners till the epidemic's over—if it ever does get over—prisoners with the plague around us.†
Chpt 33

A plague epidemic today, in a civilized land, is no longer an affair of people dying in the streets and of drivers shouting "Bring out your dead."†
Chpt 33

To have the existence of the plague admitted in the first place, he had had to fight the merchants controlling the House of Assembly, who had howled that a quarantine would ruin them, and who now refused to give him complete power and tried to manage the epidemic with a Board of Health, which was somewhat worse than navigating a ship during a typhoon by means of a committee.†
Chpt 33

It happened that he was, without Martin or Gottlieb ever understanding it, the most brilliant as well as the least pompous and therefore least appreciated warrior against epidemics that the world has known.†
Chpt 33

It came to him that Gottlieb, in his secluded innocence, had not realized what it meant to gain leave to experiment amid the hysteria of an epidemic.†
Chpt 34

Sondelius himself was as much opposed to Martin's unemotional experiments as was Fairlamb; he believed that all experiments should be, by devices not entirely clear to him, carried on in the laboratory without disturbing the conduct of agreeable epidemics, but he could never resist a drama like the innocent meeting of the Special Board.†
Chpt 34

The tedium of dread was forgotten when he began to find and make precise notes of a slackening of the epidemic, which was occurring nowhere except here at Carib.†
Chpt 34

Now they'll let me try test conditions, and then when the epidemic's over we'll hustle home.†
Chpt 34

How could he, even in the crisis of an epidemic, invite the formal Twyfords to invite Leora?†
Chpt 34

Whether from phage or rat-killing or Providence, the epidemic paused, and six months after Martin's coming, when the West Indian May was broiling and the season of hurricanes was threatened, the plague had almost vanished and the quarantine was lifted.†
Chpt 35

No one heeded a wry Scotch doctor, diligent but undramatic through the epidemic, who hinted that plagues have been known to slacken and cease without phage.†
Chpt 35

He hurled overboard all the polemics with which he had protected himself: "Men who never have had the experience of trying, in the midst of an epidemic, to remain calm and keep experimental conditions, do not realize in the security of their laboratories what one has to contend with."†
Chpt 36

But Holabird had run wild, the newspapers had reported wonders, and in on Martin poured demands that he send out phage; inquiries as to whether he did not have a phage for tuberculosis, for syphilis; offers that he take charge of this epidemic and that.†
Chpt 36

They're not going to permit another great epidemic of it.
Chpt 38 *

epidemic = a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

Monkeys are unreasonable animals; they delight in developing tuberculosis on no provocation whatever; in captivity they have a liking for epidemics; and they make scenes by cursing at their masters in seven dialects.†
Chpt 38

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(epidemic)
a widespread outbreak of a disease that is passed from one person (or other organism) to another

or more rarely: anything that spreads quickly -- especially something bad

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