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Disinfection   Listen
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disinfection  n.  The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.






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"Disinfection" Quotes from Famous Books



... Frenchwoman in particular, because she had once explained to me the necessities of civilized life. These included a masseuse, a manicurist, and a maid to look after the lapdogs. She is employed now, and has been for months past, on the disinfection and repair of soldiers' clothes. There was no need to ask after the men one had known. Still, there was no sense of desolation. They had gone on; the others ...
— France At War - On the Frontier of Civilization • Rudyard Kipling

... own experience among the troops quite convinced me that the more thoroughly and carefully self-disinfection was taught, the less immorality there was. It was impossible to teach self-disinfection properly without at the same time instilling a living sense of danger into the minds of men and women; and this danger-sense ...
— Safe Marriage - A Return to Sanity • Ettie A. Rout

... danger of using such preparation externally. Mercury is also readily absorbed through the skin, and as cattle are very susceptible to its action it is thus easy for them to be poisoned by it even without licking it from the surface. Cases of mercurial poisoning sometimes follow disinfection of cattle stables with the usual 1 to ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture



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