sewer-gas

Nor would we believe him if he informed us that the sewer-gas and overflow of waste in the house were the

Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

Foul drains are the result of badly joined and irregularly laid pipes, wherein matter accumulates, which in time ferments and produces sewer-gas.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

Chicago to-day owes its good health to the fact that we do discuss sewer-gas.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

The Charlestonians are afraid of sewer-gas, but apparently have no fear of the filth which generates sewer-gas; said filth accumulating in Charleston's streets, subject only to the attention of the dissipated-looking buzzards, which are one of the conservative and local features of the place.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

He spoke to you in favor of the suppression of sewer-gas.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

Objection has been made that the introduction of plumbing into the bedroom affords a new source of sewer-gas poisoning, but with modern materials and workmanship this need not be feared.

The Complete Home Oliver R. [Contributor] Williamson 1907

"I don't believe in feeding youngsters on sentimental trash; it's like sewer-gas -- doesn't smell bad, and infects the system without your knowing it."

April Showers 1900

He concluded by suggesting that she should base her next romance on the subject of sanitation, making the heroine nearly die of sewer-gas poisoning because her parents won't listen to the handsome young doctor next door, when he warns them that their plumbing is out of order.

April Showers 1900

After the hundreds of sanitary tracts in which the deadliness of sewer-gas has been an axiom of faith, after the thousand-and-one deaths from it in the contemporary novel, it is grimly diverting to learn that sewer-gas may be welcomed without fear to our hearths and homes.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

As for sewer-gas, we may yet live to see it manufactured artificially for the improvement of the public health, and conveyed to our overcrowded drawing-rooms with all the paraphernalia of pipes and the mendacious meter.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895