morbiferous

An eminent local medical man asserts that morbiferous germs exist to a very dangerous degree in the Whitecliffe atmosphere, and that the Whitecliffe water is rendered almost solid by the multitude of bacilli it contains.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 Various

The exorcism of morbiferous demons was the chief principle of primitive therapeutics, and as a means to this end, the written or spoken word has always been thought to exert a very great influence.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Miraculous agencies were the more eagerly sought after on account of the popular belief in devils and witches as morbiferous creatures.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

All starch foods are chiefly digested in the intestines instead of in the main stomach, and hence are unnatural and morbiferous, and the chief cause of the nervous prostration and broken-down health that abound on all sides.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

However, the man insisted, and he talked so portentously of bacteria and bacilli and morbiferous microbes that finally in a terror of apprehension I gave him four dollars and bade him do his saving work and do it quickly.

The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872