contagia
- plural of contagium.
Example Sentences
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In the Middle Ages doctors ascribed to various invisible contagia the causes of diseases.
From Time Magazine Archive
That invisible, specific contagia cause these diseases and many an-other is certain.
From Time Magazine Archive
When taken in time, all diseases which depend upon particulate contagia for their origin can be stamped out by isolation and disinfection.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Two minutes' boiling suffices to destroy some contagia, whereas two hundred minutes' boiling fails to destroy others.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
The parasites are types of this mode of disease-production, and these blend with the contagia of the specific diseases in such a way that it is not easy to draw the distinction in all cases.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
