presanitary en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + sanitary.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Before sanitation.
It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.
1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541: