Septembrists
in French history, the name given to the agents in the massacre which took place in Paris on Sept. 2, 1792, during the French Revolution.
SEPTICÆMIA, or SEPTÆMIA, in pathology, a state of the blood without secondary abscesses, a kind of pyæmia with intense fever, and great constitutional disturbance from blood poisoning. The antiseptic researches of Lister and of Pasteur have done much to counteract septicæmia.