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(botany) Bearing a partition; said of the valves of a capsule..
"What you did do," said his visitor, "was about the most dangerous thing that a doctor could be mixed up in." "Oh, no," replied Ellerslie, "he does a much more dangerous thing whenever he operates on a septiferous subject, whenever he enters a fever-stricken house. […]"
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Septiferous means (botany) Bearing a partition; said of the valves of a capsule..
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"What you did do," said his visitor, "was about the most dangerous thing that a doctor could be mixed up in." "Oh, no," replied Ellerslie, "he does a much more dangerous thing whenever he operates on a septiferous subject, whenever he enters a fever-stricken house. […]"
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