Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Produced by filth: specifically applied to a class of diseases, as typhoid, the occurrence of which is favored by filth, especially by a vitiated atmosphere.

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  • It was no hypothetical infected medium -- no problematical pythogenic gas -- that killed the worms, but a definite organism.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

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