As disinfectants, wormwood and rue were much in demand; and hence Tusser says: "What savour is better, if physicke be true, For places infected, than wormwood and rue?" For depression, thyme was recommended, and a Manx preservative against all kinds of infectious diseases is ragwort.

She brought with her a clean aromatic odor of disinfectants.

Paul showed her his simple stores of medicinethe old coat saturated with disinfectants which had become the recognized outward sign of the Moscow doctor.

"4. Disinfectants and whitewash.

In Sickness and in Health Care of the Sick-Room; Poisons and their Antidotes; Bacteria; Disinfectants; Management of Contagious Diseases.

All soiled clothing that cannot well be burnt should be put to soak at once in disinfectants, and afterward boiled apart from the family wash.

This subject of poisons assumes nowadays great importance, as it is a common custom to keep about stables, workshops, bathrooms, and living rooms generally a more or less formidable array of germicides, disinfectants, horse-liniments, insect-poisons, and other preparations of a similar character.

Disinfectants, Antiseptics, and Deodorants.

Air and Water as Disinfectants.

Dry heat, steam, and boiling water are valuable disinfectants and do not injure most fabrics.

These agents are generally used in combination with various chemical disinfectants.

Carbolic acid, chloride of lime, permanganate of potash, and various other preparations made from zinc, iron, and petroleum, are the chemical disinfectants most commonly and successfully used at the present time.

There are also numerous varieties of commercial disinfectants now in popular use, such as Platt's chlorides, bromo-chloral, sanitas, etc., which have proved efficient germicides.

Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor.

Deodorizers, or substances which destroy smells, are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfectants do not necessarily have an odor.

Disinfectants to be Employed.

How to Use Disinfectants.

Policemen in uniform and unmistakable detectives stood about the various entries, and little knots of people, evil-looking and unclean for the most part, lurked in the background or sat on benches and diffused through the stale, musty air that distinctive but indescribable odour that clings to police vans and prison reception rooms; an odour that, in the present case, was pleasantly mingled with the suggestive aroma of disinfectants.

" Dr. Withers, bringing with him an intolerable smell of disinfectants and chloroform, hurried in, with his hair mussed from the haste with which he had removed his operating-garments.

In the same way, there was a cry from the same quarter for peat charcoal, instead of preventing the need of disinfectants.

Just as his passion reached its height (he stood with his back to the door) there entered a lady who wished to make a large purchase of disinfectants.

[Footnote 1: Angus Smith, 1869, "Disinfectants."

A smell compounded of bilge, tar, paint, and other healthy disinfectants emerged as the scuttle was pushed back.

[Sidenote: Fumigations.] Let no one ever depend upon fumigations, "disinfectants," and the like, for purifying the air.

The little that had hastily been done since the morning seemed to have had no effect on the foetid atmosphere, even to Herbert's well accustomed nostrils; and what must it have been to a stranger, in spite of the open window and all the disinfectants?