morbific

In Kingston, Jamaica, for instance, British colonial officers tried to banish the disease by firing cannons through the streets “to destroy the morbific power that lurked in the dark alleys”.

It may require ages for this progress, but when it is attained, and the race is set free from all morbific influences, physical death would be impossible.

In circumscribed inflammations, where the morbific poison loses its virulence at a short distance from the puerperal lesion, they are often injurious.

Truffaldino, he continued, was an antidote to the morbific influences of Martellian verses; he had come to protect the King, the Prince, and all the people from the infection of those melancholic charms.

Fever is nothing more or less than a wholesome and salutary effort of nature to throw off some morbific matter; and, therefore, every means to lessen this indication proves injurious.