Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Production by means of filth. See
pythogenic . - noun The origin of putrefaction.
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This occurred because, despite the fact that some physicians had begun to make the connection between contaminated water and outbreaks of the contagion, the traditional medical establishment continued to hold to the belief that diseases such as cholera were generated spontaneously from filth pythogenesis and transmitted by noxious invisible gas, or miasma.
LADY of SKYE PATRICIA CABOT 2001
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