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Septic  n.  A substance that promotes putrefaction.






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"Septic" Quotes from Famous Books



... being formed. Under anaerobic conditions, however, only a slight primary hydrolysis was found to take place, though according to Rideal (Journ. Soc. Chem. Ind., 1903, 69) there is a distinct increase in the amount of free fatty acids in a sewage after passage through a septic tank. ...
— The Handbook of Soap Manufacture • W. H. Simmons

... Sisters in to tea on our floor, and heard their stories. The last seventeen of them fled with the wounded. A train of cattle-trucks came in at Rouen with all the wounded as they were picked up without a spot of dressing on any of their wounds, which were septic and full of straw and dirt. The matron, M.O., and some of them got hold of some dressings and went round doing what they could in the time, and others fed them. Then the No.— got their Amiens wounded into cattle-trucks on mattresses, ...
— Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 • Anonymous

... command in this war ever had so small a staff, but there was no officer in East Force who laboured so long or with such concentration and energy and determination as its Chief. This enthusiasm was infectious and spread through all ranks. The sick rate declined, septic sores, from which many men suffered through rough life in the desert on Army rations, got better, and the men showed more interest in their work and were keener on their sport. The full effects had not been wholly realised when the War Cabinet selected General Allenby for the control of the ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey

... themselves into several classes, all different, all requiring different care, handling and treatment, and all, in their several ways, dependent for help on the machinery of mercy. In addition to injuries on the battlefield there are illnesses contracted on the field, septic conditions following even slight abrasions or minor wounds, and nervous conditions—sometimes approximating a temporary insanity—due to prolonged strain, to incessant firing close at hand, to depression following continual ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart



Words linked to "Septic" :   germy, pestiferous, purulent, septic tank, unhealthful, infectious, infective, septicemic, dirty, putrefacient, antiseptic, contaminative, decomposition, sepsis, pussy, septic sore throat, infected



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