It was soon after this, in 1843, that he published his essay on the "Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever," his only contribution of high distinction to medical science.
Roll and others studied the contagiousness of influenza, and, finding it so much more virulent and permanent in old stables than elsewhere, classed it as a "stall miasm.
Absyrtus, the Greek veterinarian in the army of Constantine the Great, described it with considerable accuracy and recognized the contagiousness of its character.
Again, the contagiousness of pestilence is thus alluded to by Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing" (i.
Upon the question of the propagation of the disease by the dejecta rest in great measure the all-important problems of a specific virus and of the contagiousness of the disease.
The Contagiousnessof Pulmonary Consumption, and its Antiseptic Treatment.
In another part of this second book, Malebranche has opened a new and fertile vein, which he is far from having exhausted, on what he calls the contagiousness of a powerful imagination.
In no case was direct contagiousness found to exist.
The opinion of the contagiousness of elephantiasis graecorum which we find announced in Herodotus and Galen is more strongly insisted upon by Caelius Aurelianus who recommends isolation of those affected.
Footnote 3: See article on "Contagiousness of Leprosy" by writer, in Amer.
Although a few observers have doubted this contagiousness of relapsing fever, the evidence in its favor is overwhelming.
The contagiousnessof glanders was not only admitted, but the similarity of its manner of origin and propagation to the invasion of syphilis was also stated.
There are, nevertheless, many facts on record which, unless duly weighed, appear to lend a good deal of support to the theory of the contagiousness of typhoid fever.
In many epidemics, as in Philadelphia in 1869, its contagiousness is at least as intense as that of typhus fever.
Much diversity of opinion has existed in times past and to a certain extent continues to exist, in regard to the contagiousness of typhoid fever.
But the strongest argument in favor of its contagiousness is found in the fact that patients taken into a previously healthy place have frequently become the starting-point of an epidemic.
In the French army the doctrine of the {912} non-contagiousness of chronic glanders led to a greater prevalence of this disease than in any other country of Europe.
The area of the contagiousness of scarlet fever is small.
Not only are the principal symptoms succinctly described, but its contagiousness and tendency to early prostration fully recognized.
In the first place, they should follow the hygienic directions just mentioned, because such conditions fulfilled will materially lessen the contagiousness of such patients; next, the expectoration must never be allowed to get dry.
There is even question of {408} the contagiousness of tuberculosis having been recognized at this time, and measures taken to prevent its spread.
It contains among other things three contributions of the first importance--a clear statement of the problems of contagion and infection, a recognition of typhus fever and a remarkable pronouncement on the contagiousness of phthisis.
It might be fitting to add a few words with regard to the Essay on the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever.
Opinion was strongly against contagiousnessin this epidemic.
Budd's fallacies or paradoxes on the contagiousness of typhoid.
Still, there are conditions for the contagiousness of scarlatina, just as there are for the rarer event of contagion from the persons of the sick in the plague, yellow fever and cholera.
Therewith ceased for many years the talk about the contagiousness of inoculated smallpox, together with the attempts in Parliament to enforce the rival inoculation.
The contagiousnessof tuberculosis began to be suspected at this time and the idea of intimate contact with patients suffering from disease as a definite cause took shape.
The consensus of opinion points to the acceptance of the possible contagiousness of leprosy; probably by inoculation, but only under certain unknown favoring conditions.
In recent years the fact of its exhibiting a family tendency has been thought as much suggestive of contagiousness as of heredity.
The acceptance of a parasitic cause for the disease, however, necessarily carries with it the possibility of contagiousness under favoring conditions.
IV But if this contagiousness of sacredness helps to explain the system of interdicts, how is it to be explained itself?
Explanation of the system of interdictions: antagonism of the sacred and the profane, contagiousness of the sacred 317 IV.
What makes these precautions necessary is the extraordinary contagiousness of a sacred character.
The true determining cause of the phenomenon is the contagiousnesspeculiar to religious forces, as we have shown.
This contagiousness of sacredness is too well known a phenomenon[1094] to require any proof of its existence from numerous examples; we only wish to show that it is as true in totemism as in the more advanced religions.
Another cause has contributed much to this fusion; this is the extreme contagiousness of religious forces.
But the question was only put off; it still remains to be shown how it comes that the powers of evil have the same intensity and contagiousness as the others.
Thus, the contagiousness of sacredness finds its explanation in the theory which we have proposed of religious forces, and by this very fact, it serves to confirm our theory.
We have already had occasion to show how simple contact with a churinga is enough to sanctify men and things;[1083] it is also upon this principle of the contagiousness of sacredness that all the rites of consecration repose.
It is true that this contagiousness is not peculiar to religious forces; those belonging to magic have the same property; yet it is evident that they do not correspond to objectified social sentiments.
So it has a diffusion, a contagiousness and an omnipresence comparable to those of the mana.
Just as in their attempts to account for the contagiousness of a sacred character, they invoke the association of ideas.
Owing to the contagiousness inherent in all that is sacred, a profane being cannot violate an interdict without having the religious force, to which he has unduly approached, extend itself over him and establish its empire over him.
Least of all should they be ascribed to a general belief in the contagiousness of the disease.
The doctrine underlying it was the contagiousness of plague, which was much more a doctrine of the faculty than of the people, and was most of all a doctrine of the Court.
It should be added, however, that the contagiousness of inherited syphilis is denied by some observers, who affirm that, when syphilitic infants prove infective, the disease has been really acquired at or soon after birth.
We did not recognize the contagiousness of the disease until the last generation.
Apparently this indicated the recognition of the contagiousness of this disease by the medieval people.
There is much dispute concerning the contagiousness of this disease.
Mead most satisfactorily combats the opinions of the French physicians who maintained the non-contagiousness of the Plague.
The contagiousness of untreated syphilis is influenced by two other factors besides the mere lapse of time.
The whole contagious period of syphilis would lose its contagiousness if every patient and physician refused to think of anything but radical cure.
But in diseases such as tuberculosis and syphilis, in which contagiousness may extend over months and years, such a procedure is evidently out of the question.
Its contagiousness is, therefore, more readily controlled than that of tuberculosis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contagiousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
