ferment

• Dr. Quackenbos of New York, for instance, gives to some of his diabetes patients a hypnotic suggestion by the following words: "If your pancreas be crippled in its production of the natural ferment which is given off to blood and lymph and which conditions the normal condition of sugar in the body or restrains the output of sugar from the liver tissues, you will see that it forthwith pours into your blood or lymph the sufficient quantity of sugar oxidizing ferments." —  Psychotherapy
• No evidence of the existence of such a ferment was adduced, however, till 1890, when Green (_Roy. —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
• Thus we say that the yeast causes the glucose to ferment, and the process is known as alcoholic fermentation. —  An Elementary Study of Chemistry
• All was ferment, all was excitement; in the most peaceful quarters the proclamations were torn down, and the ordinances defaced. —  Napoleon the Little
• The city was in a ferment, and from time to time unknown persons, the spontaneous reporters of tumultuous days, were brought in from the outer office to give the editor the latest news of the night. —  The Eternal City

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