zymotic

Historical Examples

• Oh, auntie, 'Zymotic' is a funny word for you to be so fond of.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 31, 1920

  Various

• They contend that different varieties of water possess different degrees of what they term the zymotic power.

  Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I

  Arnold Cooley

• Zyme, name of a germ presumed to be the cause of zymotic diseases.

  The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  Edited by Rev. James Wood

• The zymotic, and the various acute diseases, so called, are in point of fact acute remedies for chronic disease.

  The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism,

  Charles Edward Page

• But this is now known to be not the true remedial process with respect to the zymotic germs.

  Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883

  Various