At length the eye of criticism and philosophy was directed to the antiquities of France; but even philosophers have been tainted by the contagion of prejudice and passion.
The same hysteric contagion marks the "Revivals" of a later period, down to the last mad outbreak in Ireland.
A nervous contagion has ruined them; and the first thing to do is to keep them apart.
Perhaps Lady Mary, over cautious, as mothers left alone sometimes are, feared the contagion to which a young man of brilliant expectations and no studious turn is necessarily exposed in all places of miscellaneous resort.
To bar up the entrance of wealth, and guard his citizens against the contagion of corruption, he absolutely prohibited navigation and commerce, though his country contained a large extent of sea coast furnished with excellent harbours.
Thus the contagion will become so universal, that nothing but an uncommon share of virtue can preserve the possessor from infection.
Two of the gentlemen became so convinced of their conveying the contagion that they withdrew for a time from practice.
It is not pretended that the contagion of puerperal fever must always be followed by the disease.
These children were afterwards fully exposed to the smallpox contagion without effect.
The family was attended by an elderly woman as a nurse, who in her infancy had been exposed to the contagion of the smallpox, but had resisted it.
Copland insisted that contagion had caused these cases; advised precautionary measures, and the practitioner had no other cases for a considerable time.
In my former treatises on this subject I have remarked that the human constitution frequently retains its susceptibility to the smallpox contagion (both from effluvia and contact) after previously feeling its influence.
The day following a rash was perceptible on her face and neck, so much resembling the efflorescence of the scarlatina anginosa that I was induced to ask whether Miss R--had been exposed to the contagion of that disease.
In the "Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery" not one word can be found in the chapter devoted to this disease which would lead the reader to suspect that the idea of contagion had ever been entertained.
These pustules arc of a much milder nature than those which arise from that contagion which constitutes the true cow-pox.
But, perhaps, there is somecontagion in my present complaint?
The princesses Adelaide and Sophie braved the frightful contagion to the last and never quitted him till the last spark had flown.
That is to say, the contagion of disease is violent and has a rapid effect, while that of health is very slow and has a small effect, and it is only in very slight diseases that it has even this small effect.
The contagion of disease is violent and rapid, while that of health is extremely weak and slow.
Even the gentleness of Tasso could not resist the contagion in his Torrismond.
It has been observed by Bouterwek that every respectable Spanish writer, as well as Cervantes, resisted the contagion of bad taste which kept the prolix mediocrity of these romances in fashion.
He that is chaste and continent not to impair his strength or terrified by contagion will hardly be heroically virtuous.
But it is the cor- ruption that I fear within me; not the contagion of commerce without me.
For the men of Jabesh burnt the body of Saul; and by no prohibited practice, to avoid contagion or pollution, in time of pestilence, burnt the bodies of their friends.
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church, that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
The elder, being of a fitting age, was sent to school, and somewhat escaped the contagion of the paternal mansion.
Despite the contagion of the Mug, despite his associates in Fish Lane, despite his intimacy with Long Ned, thou hast seen him brave temptation, and look forward to some other career than that of robbery or fraud.
She had caught the contagion of his enthusiasm, though she had no clew as to how this great time-saving was to be accomplished.
He was the centre and the head of the revel, unquenchably joyous, a contagion of fun.
He had caught the contagion of the excitement, and he felt that in some way he must do a great thing for John Thornton.
Because of all this he became possessed of a great pride in himself, which communicated itself like a contagionto his physical being.
The contagion of the war reached them, however, and they perpetrated numerous murders; while the neighboring nation of the Creeks rose in open hostility, and committed formidable ravages.
The only Objection to what I have here advanced seems to be, That if the Contagion was communicated to the Blood chiefly by the Lungs, the Coagulations wou'd be immediately form'd there, and this Bowel totally obstructed.
To inculcate our strict obligation of shunning bad company, God commanded all intimacy with public sinners to be avoided, lest the sound should be infected by the contagion of their vices.
Is a male leper less to be shunned for fear ofcontagion that a woman similarly stricken?
This speed was incarnated in the visible contagion amongst brutes of some impulse, that, radiating into their natures, had yet its centre and beginning in man.
Her supporters were her own strong enthusiasm, and the headlong contagion by which she carried this sublime frenzy into the hearts of women, of soldiers, and of all who lived by labor.
Propagated by contagion or by immediate contact or effluvia.
The period of incubation, that is the interval of time between exposure to the contagion of scarlet fever and the first sign of the disease in the person so exposed, varies.
Contagion is properly a poisoning of one individual from contact with a diseased individual in some way known or unknown.
Others enter into the same humour, and catch the sentiment, by a contagion or natural sympathy; and as we cannot forbear loving whatever pleases, a kindly emotion arises towards the person who communicates so much satisfaction.
They seem also to have been used by Cheyne to prevent the development of smallpox in persons who had been exposed to contagion and had presumably taken the contagion.
This will be a convenient point in the history at which to review the rise and progress of the idea that the inoculation of smallpox was a wilful spreading of contagion and therefore a public nuisance.
Whether or not the contagion travelled from Ireland or the west of Scotland, the epidemic in England began in the west and south-west, and reached the Eastern counties last.
The contagion spread widely among the inhabitants of Whitehaven, Cockermouth and Workington[197].
As the spread of contagion came to be realized, the ordinary hospitality to vagrants ceased.
It was successfully opposed by the Lord Chancellor (Eldon) and by the Lord Chief Justice (Ellenborough), the latter contending that the common law was a better remedy than a statute against the nuisance of contagion from inoculated smallpox.
The danger of contagion from inoculated smallpox in 1840 was no greater than it had ever been, and it had never been appreciable among the things favouring an epidemic.
Some inclined to Arbuthnot's view of unusual seasons and weather producing the same effects everywhere; others favoured the hypothesis of contagion from a remote source, which might be China or might be some other territory.
If a person who has been exposed to the contagion of smallpox for four or five days be then inoculated for this disease, the inoculation prevents the effects of the contagion, and the inoculated smallpox is produced.
He admitted only one failure, a case at Halifax which had been inoculated without an eruption ensuing and took smallpox by contagion a month after.
The contagion that reached England and Scotland from the scene of famine in Ireland was more apt to produce typhus than relapsing fever.
The actions are illustrative not only of the contagion of the movement, but of the fundamental emotions of the negroes who formed the exodus.
The example of one county in north Georgia, which ran every negro out, was followed by other counties adjoining, and the general public has little idea how widespread the contagion became--for lawlessness is nearly always contagious.
Marcius exclaims: "All the contagion of the south light on you.
Once more, ravens' feathers were formerly used by witches, from an old superstition that the wings of this bird carried with them contagion wherever they went.
A belief in the efficacy of an amulet or charm to ward off diseases and to avert contagion has prevailed from a very early period.
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
