virulency

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Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive

The controversy between the two is noted for the virulency of the personal invective. with hideous ruin.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

The veterinarian is in no position to estimate the virulency of organisms so introduced; neither can he determine the exact degree of resistance possessed by the subject in any given case.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

Experience teaches that the natural course and termination in these cases are modified by the location and depth of the injury, virulency of the contagium and resistance of the subject to such infection.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

We seem to be approaching to that state which first made such restrictions necessary, and in the further course of time, the disease will probably fall off again, both in virulency and frequency.

From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William