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The beneficent action of Apis, in intermittent fever, is still increased by the fact that it prevents the supervention of typhus, disorganizations of the spleen, dropsy, china-cachexia.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

We had to observe in Johnson how much good a Prophet, under all disadvantages and disorganizations, can accomplish for the world.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

Now, the world would be insane and rabid, if these disorganizations should last for hundreds of years.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo