septinen.

1866 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Dec. 633/1 Dr. Richardson, at a recent meeting of the Epidemiological Society, announced that he had found the poisonous matter of pyæmia to be an alkaloid, which was derived from the decomposition of albuminoid substances. He calls it ‘septine’, and says that it has the power of transforming albuminous secretion into matter like itself.

1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life i. vi. 89 I succeeded in separating from the poisonous matter exuded from the peritoneal secretion of a patient labouring under surgical fever, a substance which would give a similar disease to an inferior animal... I named this substance ‘septine’.

1999 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 89 69 He [sc. B. W. Richardson] claimed to have isolated one such poisonous particle, which he named a ‘septine’.

1875 Med. Times & Gaz. 20 Mar. 328/2 On Saturday, March 20..Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., will read a paper entitled ‘Some new Researches on the Cause of Increment of Animal Heat from the action of the Septinous Poisons..’.

1877 Times 5 Oct. 4/5 [Dr. Richardson] classed the diseases produced by organic poisons as septinous instead of zymotic, he preferring the word septine for this poison.

1892 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 July 78/2 Hence he [sc. Richardson] concluded that any animal secretion might be made to yield a contagious principle to which he gave the name ‘septine’, and the maladies thus engendered were designated by him as ‘septinous’.