G] In the first instance, the contagion spread from animal to animal by means of an infecting influence in some degree direct, among cattle sheltered beneath the same roof, or collected in swarms within the same markets.
Willis continues: It crept from house to house, infecting most of the same family, and especially those in familiar converse with the sick.
Second, what is to be done with diseased trees to bring them back to health or to prevent them from infecting other healthy trees nearby.
Every time a carpenter saws a piece of fresh timber with the saw which has been used previously for cutting wood attacked with dry rot, he risks infecting it with the fungus.
The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat.
The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter.
This should not be practiced, as there is great danger of infecting the bag and producing serious complications.
Where Lumpy Jaw is of long standing so as to impair the use of the animal's tongue or teeth, it is best to destroy the animal, as this lessens the possibilities of infectinghealthy animals.
He carried out a series of experiments on rabbits, immunizing against and infecting with the virus of hydrophobia, tetanus and anthrax.
He used asinfecting agents, anthrax bacilli, tubercle bacilli, and diphtheria bacilli.
M102 The rule of continence observed by savage warriors is perhaps based on a fear of infecting themselves sympathetically with feminine weakness and cowardice.
Here, therefore, the rule of continence probably springs from a fear of infecting sympathetically the traps with feminine weakness or perhaps with menstrual pollution.
Driven out of Hungary, in 1410, he was arrested and thrown in prison in Vienna, by the papal inquisitor and episcopal official, for teaching Hussitism and infecting with it the university of that city.
Umiliati and Poor Men of Lyons as synonymous expressions, and endeavoring with little success to effect their expulsion from Faenza, where they were spreading and infectingthe people.
The pus perforates the fibrous layer of the periosteum, invading and infecting the overlying soft parts, its spread being influenced by the anatomical arrangement of the tissues.
Section of Upper End of Fibula, showing caseating focus in marrow, erupting on articular surface andinfecting joint.
While marriage might be entered upon under these conditions without risk of the husband infecting the wife, the possibility of his conveying the disease to the offspring cannot be absolutely excluded.
A patient who has had an infecting chancre one or more years before, may present a slightly raised induration on the penis at or close to the site of his original sore.
At the same time he is believed to have the power ofinfecting others (not necessarily by actual contagion), and he was generally made to live alone or with other lepers, at a distance from the village.
It is not a logical theory of infection, because in their simple creed it is generally not necessary that the infecting agent should himself be suffering from the disease.
Over this long distance, thickly inhabited on both shores of the St. Lawrence, cholera made a single leap, without infecting a single village or a single house between the two cities, with the following exceptions.
The nature of this infectingprinciple is wholly unknown.
In respect to atmospheric infection by yellow fever, localizations of aërial impregnation are often observable, not common in other air-infecting diseases.
Pasteur found the brain-matter of rabid animals invariably infectious, and has preserved the moist brain in an infecting condition for three weeks at a temperature of 12° C.
To demonstrate the bacillus they take a thin layer of the infecting liquid on a cover glass, dry it, stain with methyl violet, wash with dilute acetic acid, dehydrated by absolute alcohol, and clear by oil of cedar.
The exciting cause of the plague must, in {776} the present state of our knowledge, be assumed to be a specific infecting principle.
The facts in reference to the spread of epidemics of influenza and the course of the disease in infected localities are comprehensible upon no other theory than that of a specific infecting principle as its exciting cause.
One will never know the exact measure of one's infecting power; or whether, indeed, one is not just a long soporific.
Yes, but my dear Felix, when it comes to infecting those simple people with inflated ideas of their rights, it's serious, especially in the country.
The subsequent history of the parasite and its mode of infecting man remain unknown.
An epidemic of the gapes, infecting the entire race of local hens, had caused the disappearance of every egg from the market.
As such, he unavoidably gathers about him a host of mere acquaintances, good folks who waste his time dulling the edge of his wit and infecting him with their orthodoxy.
How serious is the risk of infecting the wife if a man should marry during the contagious period of syphilis?
It is as if a person with scarlet fever could be dipped in a disinfecting bath and then turned loose in the community without the slightest danger of his infecting others.
If a friend is suffering from small-pox or scarlet fever you do not seek to prove your sympathy byinfecting yourself with his disease.
I shall be a centre of cheer and helpfulness to those about me, infecting them with my own good humour, and this cheerful mood will become so habitual that nothing can rob me of it.
The infecting organism pyrosoma bigenimum is a tiny pear-shaped parasite of the red corpuscles.
Fermentation of immense quantities of fluid could be produced by the sediment of yeast cells at the bottom of the vessel and a single case of smallpox would be capable of infecting multitudes.
The most common lesion consists in the death of the tissue about the infecting organisms.
For the extension of infection from one individual to another the infecting organisms must in some way be transferred.
The great majority of bacteria of interest in dairying belong to the saprophytic class; only those species capable of infecting milk through the development of disease in the animal are parasites in the strict sense of the term.
There are undoubtedly a number of different species of bacteria that are capable of producing these viscid changes,[59] but it is quite probable that they are not of equal importance in infecting milk under natural conditions.
If this waste product is returned to the different patrons in the same cans that are used for the fresh milk, the probabilities are strongly in favor of some of the cans being contaminated and thus infecting the milk supply of the patrons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
