contagium

It is doubtful whether it can be conveyed from one person to another; at least nothing is known concerning the "contagium," or germ of conveyance of infection, -- according to the differential diagnosis of Dr.G. Kuhnemann, whose work on the subject is held to be authoritative.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

Tui precatus munere nostrum reatum dilue, arcens mali contagium, vitæ repellens tædium.

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Tui precatus munere nostrum reatum dilue, arcens mali contagium, vitæ repellens tædium.

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It is one which occurs in epidemics, but to which children individually are largely susceptible; the actual contagium thereof, however, is likewise unknown to science.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

The old school hypothesis and the deductions therefrom would seem therefore, to be this: That a super-malignant contagium imported from some foreign source falls upon organisms predisposed to infection by mental stress or physical privation and over-strain or both combined; and the contagion thus generated through the medium of some unsuspected

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann

The breath and emanations from the skin transmit the _contagium_ from the appearance of the first symptom to the disappearance of the eruption.

The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

The _contagium_ is probably derived entirely from the scales and particles of skin escaping from smallpox patients, and in the year 1905-6 the true germ of the disease was discovered by Councilman, of Boston.

The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

These may be inflicted when horses lie down upon sharp stumps of vegetation or shoe-calk injuries may be the means of introducing contagium, and an infectious inflammation results.

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

Long before any clear ideas as to the relations of Schizomycetes to fermentation and disease were possible, various thinkers at different times had suggested that resemblances existed between the phenomena of certain diseases and those of fermentation, and the idea that a virus or contagium might be something of the nature of a minute organism capable of spreading and reproducing itself had been entertained.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Chicken-pox, or Varicella, of which the contagium also remains a mystery, is another infectious eruptive form of disease, peculiar to children.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann