It is not generally known that to the great English physicist we owe the almost absolute demonstration of the impossibility of spontaneous generation, together with a series of studies showing the existence everywhere in the atmosphere of minute forms of life to which Fermentative changes and also the infectious diseases-though at that time this was only a probability-are to be attributed.
"Catholic Churchmen in Science"
James J. Walsh
But as an article of sustenance Rice is not well suited for persons of Fermentative tendencies during the digestion of their food, because its starch is liable to undergo this chemical change in the stomach.
"Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure"
William Thomas Fernie
In this work of destruction they are aided by the oxygen of the air and the solar heat: their own Fermentative action is also accompanied by a marked rise of temperature, and the carbon-dioxide and other products of their activity all go to complicate the chemical changes going on in the soil around the roots.
"Disease in Plants"
H. Marshall Ward