Crossword-Solution: GERMICIDAL 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

There were in it, perhaps, fifty feet of tubes, a perfectly-closed tubular system which I noticed Kennedy was keeping absolutely sterile in a germicidal solution of some kind.

There are _two methods_ of preventing fertilisation:-- (1) _The chemical method_, that is, the destruction of the male cells (spermatazoa) by means of a suitable germicidal substance, such as many of the disinfectants; and (2) _The mechanical method_, that is, the adoption of measures which keep the male and the female cells apart from one another.

The germicidal action of light-rays and of some of the invisible rays which ordinarily accompany the luminous rays is well proved.

But more recent research has taught, that the essential oil contained in this, and other allied aromatic herbs, such as Elecampane, [xvi] Rosemary, and Cinnamon, serves by its germicidal principles (stearoptens, methyl-ethers, and camphors), to extinguish bacterial life which underlies all contagion.

Consequently, it has become the custom to take all the bedding, clothing, carpets, curtains, etc., that have touched a patient suffering from a contagious disease, or have been in the room with him, and also any books that he may have handled, any pens or pencils that he may have used, and either destroy them, or bake, boil, or fumigate them with some strong germicidal, or disinfectant, vapor.