germicides

They all have two things in common: they can be spread only by the touch of an infected person, and "touch" includes breath, -- indeed "by touch" is the meaning of both infectious and contagious; and they can all be prevented by the strictest cleanness, or killed by various poisons known as germicides

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

Found in many deodorizers, disinfectants and germicides; EPA classifies as a probable human carcinogen.

Some skip commercial cleaners for those made from pantry 2009

Last week the CDC recommended these waterless germicides even in hospitals.

The Real Dirt On Antibacterial Soaps 2007

Disinfectants and germicides have been used by the gallon, and still I don't feel safe.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

But you pass the word that I expect to smell perfume, not germicides.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

It has not proved an easy task to discover drugs which will have any value as germicides when used in quantities so small as to produce no injurious effect on the body.

The Story of Germ Life

Sometimes such a bacterial affection may be localized in places where it can be specially treated, as in the case of an attack on a dermal gland, and in these cases some of the germicides have proved to be of much value.

The Story of Germ Life

There are also numerous varieties of commercial disinfectants now in popular use, such as Platt's chlorides, bromo-chloral, sanitas, etc., which have proved efficient germicides.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

In producing, therefore, a disinfecting soap, being debarred from using the metallic germicides, we are fortunate in the possession of a number of efficient agents, organic in character, which may be used without interference in soaps.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

No really well informed person has believed for a long time that carbolic alcohol will destroy the cholera poison; but many fully and correctly believe that real germicides will.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 Various