The acute nervous state to which the term alcoholism was applied by Magnus Huss has all the essential characteristics of the nervous state due to the contagionsand infections.
This action of alcohol on the liver and kidneys so interferes with their functions as to produce the effect already described as resulting in the contagions and infections from their toxins.
The chronic contagions and infections are most fertile sources of human degeneracy since their weakened products are enabled to survive under modern beneficence.
The influence of contagions and infections on degeneracy is therefore by no means slight.
Through this interaction of perverted nutrition, imperfect poison-destruction, and deficient waste ejection result and continue the states of nervous exhaustion after the contagions and infections.
Alcohol exerts a similarly deteriorating influence on the antitoxin-forming organs (especially on the testicles, ovaries and their appendages), to that already described as exerted by the toxins of the contagions and infections.
For this reason in the degenerate many infections and contagions assume their old destructive type.
In other respects acute and chronic contagions and infections exert the same influence in regard to degeneracy.
Opium, like alcohol, causes nervous exhaustion similar to, but greater than, that of the contagions and infections.
Of these chronic contagions two (tuberculosis and syphilis) alone deserve attention, since the third (leprosy) exerts but little influence.
The acute and chronic contagions and infections so lower cell vitality through the perverted functions described that inert connective tissue replaces healthy working cells.
Careful medical researches have shown that alcohol produces a nervous state, closely resembling that induced by the contagions and infections, often accompanied with mental disturbance (delirium tremens and acute types of insanity).
These, then, are stigmata of degeneracy, especially due, in the individual presenting them, to the contagions and infections rather than to inheritance alone.
Contagions of small-pox and measles do not act at the same times.
As sympathy yet takes chances with contagions it took them then with shells.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contagions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
