10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGGOTORIUM»
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maggotorium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Surgical Dressings and Wound Management: A Unique Source of ...
5959 who described how, in the early 1900s, a farmer called Arthur Bryant set up
a 'maggotorium' where those suffering from pulmonary TB could sit and breathe
maggot fumes in the hope of improving their condition. Each year Bryant would ...
2
Landscape with Solitary Figure
Murgett argued that his maggotorium was supplying a demand and fulfilling a
public service. Hardly a London angler, he pointed out, went fishing at the week-
end without his ration of Murgett maggots. His opponents claimed that when the ...
3
The Chambers Dictionary
n maggotorium (-to', -to') a place where maggots are bred for sale to fishermen.
— adj magg ory full of maggots; crotchety; very drunk (slang). [Poss a
modification of ME maddok. matliek. dimin. see mawk] maggot-pie See magpie.
maggs.
4
Odour pollution of air: causes and control
If, on entering a maggotorium, the smell is of rotting fish, the metabolism of the
maggots is out of order: trimethylamine in low concentrations smells of rotten fish,
not of ammonia. There is an important point here in connection with the breeding
...
He claimed he could cure tuberculosis, then number one killer, and actually had
patients living in his " Maggotorium," the iron shed on Gelston Road where he
processed his dead animals. Some patients claimed they were making good ...
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Concise English Dictionary
n. maggotorium (-to'-td')a place where maggots are bred for sale to fishermen. [
Poss. a modification of M.E. maddok, mathek, dim., see mawk. ) Magi, Magian.
See Magus. magic maj'ik, n. the art of producing marvellous results by compelling
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They called this room the Maggotorium. 'That's the smell that came off St John's
grave and healed people,' I said. Peeling spuds, my mother grunted. I read on.
According to Harper, a nineteenth-century doctor called Friedrich Kuchenmeister
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Mrs. Mary MacMaggot of the Maggotorium, Toads- ville, is a great herb fan. She
firmly believes that people who take chemicals, and that means chemical drugs
and all that sort of stuff, should have their brains tested; Mrs. Mary MacMaggot is
...
Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, 1975
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Glasgow Medical Journal
We dare not go so far as assert that the " maggotorium " was known to
Shakespeare, but we have no hesitation in saying that the following conversation
might quite well have taken place, between believers and unbelievers, in such an
...
10
Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute
... sanitary science an article (written with much vehemence) upon the
extermination of this pest, and side by side with this in the same issue an editorial
review upon an institution called a Maggotorium, established for the cure of
consumption, ...
