When the business meeting was over, John found a piece of yellow cloth at one of the dry goods stores, armed himself with a supply of disinfectants, and started on his second trip to his pauper patient.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
I suppose the sea, and the surf in the air, are disinfectants.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
After the Great Plague the popularity of tobacco and snuff increased, for during the time of the terrible visitation both had been largely used as disinfectants.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews