septiferous

adj

1. (not-comparable)Bearing a partition; said of the valves of a capsule.
2. (not-comparable, obsolete)Conveying putrid poison.

   “"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. […]"”