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" It also states that the term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc. "
A Dictionary of Medical Science ... - Page 238
by Robley Dunglison - 1876 - 1131 pages
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Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise ...

Robley Dunglison - Climatology - 1854 - 960 pages
...contact is effected. CONTA'GION, Conta'gio, Conta'gef, Conta'ginm, Aporrhai'a, Apoc'rysis. Saino etymon. The transmission of a disease from one person to another...of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, Ac., but in this sense it is now abandoned. Contagious diseases are produced either...
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On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers: In a Series of ...

Charles Delucena Meigs - Medical - 1854 - 390 pages
...infecting by a touch; and Dr. Dunglison, in his Medical Dictionary, uses these words: "Contagion is the transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or individual contact. The term has also been applied, by some, to the miasmata arising from dead animal...
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Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, Volume 9

Medicine - 1881 - 662 pages
...First then what do we mean by contagion ? Webster defines it as " the act or process of transmitting a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact." Understanding what we mean by the term, let us proceed to adduce such testimony as will enlighten us...
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Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Kansas, Volume 1

Kansas State Board of Health - Public health - 1886 - 196 pages
...gives rise to the distinction of contagions is the property these diseases possess of " transmitting a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact." Infection is used to imply the same thing, as it is found that medical writers employ the two words...
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The Medical Tribune: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 6

1890 - 586 pages
...Contagion (from contango I touch, or come in contact), is defined as " the act or process of transmitting a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact." Most diseases occur de navo, without contact, and hence are not from contagion. There is not a year,...
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Transactions of the ... annual meeting, the American Academy of ..., Volume 2

1896 - 294 pages
...published in 1860, defines the word infection as synonymous with contagion and defines contagion as being the transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or ' indirect contact. It also states that the term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal...
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The Philadelphia Polyclinic, Volume 7

Medicine - 1898 - 648 pages
...defining the word contagion, quotes from Dunglison as follows : "The act or process of transmitting a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact." For a second definition he gives : " That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease ;...
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The Christian Science Journal, Volume 30

Christian Science - 1912 - 872 pages
...sense conveyed by Webster when, in begiuning his definition of the term, he says that contagion is "the transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact." The Bible teaches that God is Spirit, is good, and is All-in-all. The prophet says of Him, "Thou art of...
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The Science of chiropractic. v.5, 1920, Volume 5

Bartlett Joshua Palmer - 1920 - 444 pages
...that "process," the lack of which leaves every question unanswered. Dunglison says of "Contagion" : "Transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact. Also at one time applied to action of miasmata rising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, pens,...
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The Student's Standard English Gujarati Dictionary: With Pronunciations ...

Shankerbhai Galabhai Patel - English language - 1924 - 992 pages
...junction of bodies;a touchin or meeting: Ч31ЧЙ1 %i%l4c; %i'^llContagion, (. & tangió, I touch.] The transmission of a disease from one person to another by direct or indirect contact:5l4; SPilVl«! S4Í iíj*MÍW4W.e.Th»t which serves as a medinm or agency to transmit disease:...
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