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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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