The septic contagium is the quickest in its action; it generally causes death before the splenic fever has had time to develop itself and to produce appreciable effects.
The moment the contents of the tube cease to be virulent, it is a sign that the contagium is dead.
With admirable patience, skill, and penetration, Koch followed up the life history of bacillus anthracis, the contagium of this fever.
It so exhausts the soil that the really fatal contagium fails to find there the elements necessary to its reproduction and multiplication.
It completely cleared up the perplexity previously existing as to the two forms--the one fugitive, the other permanent--in which the contagium presented itself.
How can it be hoped to discover a vaccine of splenic fever by the method used with the contagium of fowl cholera, since the splenic fever virulence, at the end of twenty-four hours, is concentrated in a spore?
The new contagium which had appeared, and which had killed the inoculated animals, was due to these spores.
Experience teaches that the natural course and termination in these cases are modified by the location and depth of the injury, virulency of the contagium and resistance of the subject to such infection.
Hoare[2] states that in this type of specific arthritis the contagium is probably carried by the blood.
The disease is due to the introduction of pus producing organisms into the subcoronary region of the foot under conditions which favor the retention of such contagium and extension of infection into contiguous tissues.
A sub-coronary abscess which, because of lack of proper care or because of virulency of the contagium or low vitality of the subject, is quite apt to result in cartilaginous affection and its perforation by necrosis follows.
His writings attracted little attention at the time and the "contagium vivum" theory seems to have been almost lost sight of for more than fifty years.
The discoveries of Leeuwenhoek which proved the existence of microscopic organisms soon revived the "contagium vivum" idea of Kircher.
Nevertheless Kircher (mentioned already) is usually given undeserved credit for the "contagium vivum" theory.
We possess several works of that time which put forward contagium animatum as a scientific doctrine, with the same confidence, with the same sort of proof, with which the "Plastidulic soul" is now set forth.
Professor Virchow seems to deprecate the 'obstinacy' with which this notion of a contagium vivum emerged.
Again, I think Professor Virchow's position, in regard to the question of contagium animatum, is not altogether that of true philosophy.
For my part, I should be inclined to ascribe to penetration rather than to presumption the notion of a contagium animatum.
I write thus with the theory of contagium vivum, more especially in my mind, and must regret the attitude of denial assumed by Professor Virchow towards that theory.
He gives the identification of the contagium as something which he has studied to the end in the infected body, and which can now in a future stage be studied outside the body.
If the contagion of the disease be admitted, the existence of a {796} contagium animatum is implied at once, for no chemical poison has the power of propagation.
The ocular affections may precede, accompany, or alternate with the articular, and, not being due to direct introduction of the urethral contagium into the eye, are regarded as manifestations or localizations of gonorrhoeal rheumatism.
Little has been said either of the nature of the contagium or of the conditions that modify its activity.
From what has preceded, it will be seen that the writer is disposed to range himself with those who hold that the exciting cause of typhoid fever is an organized germ, or, in other words, a contagium vivum.
These qualities of yellow-fever infection, and especially its faculty of reproduction (which only organisms possess), furnish almost conclusive evidence that yellow fever is a germ disease produced by a specific contagium vivum.
Furthermore, whether associated or not with an organic substance, the contagium of the disease is known to preserve the power of reproducing itself for a period lasting for weeks, months, and even a longer time.
The nature of the contagiumin small-pox has been the subject of much speculation, careful investigation, and experiment, the results having established but few facts of any practical value.
The contagium of rötheln is unknown, but that the disease is contagious has been fully demonstrated by numerous observations of epidemics and sporadic cases.
The exact nature of the measles contagium has never been satisfactorily established, although we are in possession of numerous researches in that direction, which, however, are to a great extent contradictory.
Most observers hold that the contagium is not in the blood, but that it resides in the secretions of the respiratory passages, and is most virulent during that stage of the disease when the secretion is abundant.
I do not, however, feel entirely satisfied in adopting the view that the contagium of whooping cough resides alone in the mucous membranes of the air-passages.
A freezing temperature ordinarily destroys the contagium of yellow fever.
Richardson believes that the contagium was attached to the thatch, which could not be thoroughly disinfected.
Beijerinck's results are contained in his paper, "Ueber ein Contagiumvivum fluidum," etc.
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.
Chicken-pox, or Varicella, of which the contagium also remains a mystery, is another infectious eruptive form of disease, peculiar to children.
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