These regulations undoubtedly had much to do with the prevention of the spread of the infectious diseases.
While the death rate from other acute diseases has been decreasing in recent years and especially from the infectious diseases, the mortality from affections of the kidneys, heart and brain has been increasing.
Footnote 1: Published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol.
Filters furnish relative, not absolute, protection against infectious matter in the raw water.
If she be sent for to people whom she does not know, let her be very cautious before she goes, lest by attending an infectious woman, she runs the danger of injuring others, as sometimes happens.
The infectious softness through the heroes ran; One universal solemn shower began; They bore as heroes, but they felt as man.
On all around theinfectious sorrow grows; But Priam check’d the torrent as it rose: "Perform, ye Trojans!
Though in many contagious fevers a material similar to that which produced the disease, is thus generated by imitation; yet there are other infectious materials, which do not thus propagate themselves, but which seem to act like slow poisons.
The mutiny was an infectious frenzy; so that you establish nothing against that cast of countenance.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease due to the deposition and multiplication of the tubercule bacillus in the tissues of the body.
The skin closure is made without drainage, and no wet dressing employed for fear of the solution filling the cavity whence the bone was removed and carrying with it infectious material.
Tetanus is an infectious disease, invariably preceded by some injury.
Infectious osteomyelitis is acute suppuration of the bone, always due to the infection of the bone marrow by pyogenic microorganisms.
In some cases the adjacent joint early becomes tender, hot and swollen, and this may occur even when there is no real extension of the infectious process to the joint itself.
Hence infectious osteomyelitis is not a specific disease, but is acute inflammation of bone that may be produced by any one of a variety of pathogenic organisms, or by a mixed infection.
The general condition, facies and anxiety, dry and parched tongue, delirium and general distress, at once directs attention to the infectious nature of the trouble.
Before I have done, I feel called upon to say a few words upon the efficacy of fumigation as a preservative against Cholera Morbus and other infectious diseases.
By some of Sir Gilbert's abettors, we are assured that his "facts are perfectly reconcileable with the hypothesis of the cholera being of an infectious nature.
Don't go upon the road if you are afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease.
The letter which he carried was burned by the sheikh of the village, a wise and cautious man, who had been called in to give his advice as to the treatment of the infectious traveller.
Probably the disease was not at such aninfectious stage as it is now--you may not have contracted it.
We have now reached a phase of this question when it is of the very last importance that light should once for all be thrown upon the manner in which contagious and infectious diseases take root and spread.
It was with this thought in my mind that I ventured to recommend, more than a year ago, the use of cotton-wool respirators in infectious places.
Drying the infectious blood containing the rod-like organisms, in which, however, the spores were not developed, he found the contagium to be that which Dr.
It is there--infectious enough in her own pages, and with it the courage which can come only from a heart at peace with itself.
But Arthur's laughter almost proved infectious when Marcasse said to me with incomparable gravity: "Monsieur Bernard, I have had the honour of searching for you for a long time.
In the event of the appearance of a case of any infectious disease, the man is isolated, the men of his mess are put under observation, and all of their clothes are disinfected.
Sleeping in hammocks in itself is not unhealthy--quite the contrary, in fact--but the danger lies in the chance an infectious disease has to spread among so many men lying almost side by side and head to feet.
His infectious good-humour was better than any graces.
Besides, it is absolutely against rules to take infectious cases on board the mission vessels.
A special form of insanity called by Weber, who first described it, the delirium of collapse, was observed by him to follow certain infectious diseases such as typhus fever and pneumonia.
No doubt is any longer entertained of its infectious character, though the degree of infectivity appears to vary considerably.
The infectious character of influenza having been determined, suggestions were made for its administrative control on the familiar lines of notification, isolation and disinfection, but this has not hitherto been found practicable.
And to these seductions were added a sunny temperament, an infectious gaiety of spirit, and a playful wit which made her infinitely attractive to men much less susceptible that the amorous Louis.
Perhaps the only direction in which natural selection is the chiefly operative factor in human evolution to-day is in the development of immunity from infectious disease.
The situation here is interestingly analogous to that in connection with certain of the infectious diseases.
So far as prevention is concerned, however, it makes practically little difference whether infectious diseases are due to an animal or a vegetable germ, or to one bacillus or another.
When, however, we know that two-thirds of them are a late result of some of the preventable infectious diseases and fevers, we can realize that it is perfectly possible to prevent them, and that prevention is the best cure.
No amount of money, or of time, that a town or a county can spend in stamping out these infectious diseases would be wasted.
The best known preventive of serious results from this disease is the same as in the rest of infectious diseases, namely, rest in bed, away from all other children, which at the same time stops the spread of it.
In the case of nearly all infectious diseases, the effects on the nervous system are among the last to appear, and may not occur until weeks, months, or even years after the main fever or attack of sickness.
And then," Pierre concluded, "when the doctor arrived he at once recognised that it was a case of infectious fever.
Like some gay Neapolitan "Pulcinello," he was dancing, shouting, and displaying such infectious good humour that it spread to all around him.
Evidently, of an infectious fever as your Eminence so well says," he replied.
Cardinal; and as the doctor trembling and averting his eyes did not answer he added: "At all events of an infectious fever!
And, ere long, I shall endeavour to point out some persons who have the same infectious disorders.
Yes, Sibella; she persisted, in defiance of my resentment and its probable consequences, the worthy woman persisted in preserving her child from the infectious example of my vices.
Small pox and all the contagious and infectious diseases would make short work with the tenement-house population, were any of them to become epidemic in the city.
Harris, "Consumption and all the inflammatory diseases of the lungs vie with the infectious and other zymotic disorders, in wasting the health and destroying the life of the tenement population.
It is inevitable that infectious diseases of the most fatal kind must be generated and diffused.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infectious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
