Chapter XI The Transmission and Hygiene of Syphilis The problem of the control of syphilis as a contagious disease is the least appreciated and the most important one in the whole field.
The question of reporting syphilis to health officers as a contagious disease is a good one to raise in a meeting when a stormy session is desired.
This is a contagious disease, and arises only by contagion from a previously affected animal; consequently it can never be seen here except as the result of importing affected animals from the Old World.
So much the more honour, I infer, is due to those who, three centuries in advance, so put together the facts and analogies of contagious disease as to divine its root and character.
For if the seeds of contagious disease be themselves living things, it may be difficult to destroy either them or their progeny, without involving their living habitat in the same destruction.
What disinterested man will, on due examination of all that has been written on yellow fever, stand up now in support of its being a contagious disease, of which some thirty or forty years ago there was so general a belief?
It may not be out of place to emphasize the value of soap, not particularly in times of epidemic or contagious disease, but as a continual safeguard against infection.
Defn: A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp.
Defn: A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws.
A contagious disease, generally confined to the horse, ass, and mule, but communicable to man, in whom it assumes a highly malignant and often fatal character.
The distemper is a contagious disease, and is generally fatal to weakly and very young dogs.
By some a contagious disease is regarded as one arising from direct contact only, in contradistinction to an infectious one, which is believed to act at a distance.
The characteristic of a contagious disease is its specificity; that is, the disease transmitted is always the same in its essential characteristics.
The fact that in the one case there is generation of a variolous poison capable of producing a contagious disease in adults, and in the other a malady which is known to affect children only, renders the decision important.
Except in cases of contagious disease, the rules for managing which have been given in a previous section (p.
Dead body of convict, unclaimed by friends, shall be delivered to medical college except such dying of contagious disease (Laws, 1891, ch.
PEST'HOUSE, a hospital for persons afflicted with any contagious disease.
It is a chronic, contagious disease, particularly of equines, caused by a specific organism, the Sporotrichum schenckii, and characterized by a suppurative inflammation of the subcutaneous lymph vessels and the neighboring lymph glands.
Rabies is a contagious disease, which is usually transmitted by a bite and by the introduction of a virus contained in the saliva of an affected animal.
Fear is itself a contagious disease, and is sometimes reflected from one to another mind with great rapidity.
We see a non-contagious disease in the very process of transformation into a contagious one in the case of pulmonary consumption.
Still more striking is his insistence on the fact that such a contagious disease as pest may be carried by cats and dogs and other domestic animals.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contagious disease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
