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Definition of Contagions
1. contagion [n] - See also: contagion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contagions
Literary usage of Contagions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Syphilis and marriage: Lectures Delivered at the St. Louis Hospital, Paris by Alfred Fournier (1882)
"In the enormous majority of cases, the syphilitic contagions transmitted in ...
These contagions are almost invariably derived from, secondary accidents of ..."
2. Organic Chemistry in Its Applications to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig, Lyon Playfair Playfair, John White Webster (1841)
"ON POISONS, Contagions, AND MIASMS. A GREAT many chemical compounds, some derived
from inorganic nature, and others formed in animals and plants, ..."
3. Chemistry in Its Application to Agriculture and Physiology by Justus Liebig (1843)
"ON POISONS, Contagions, AND MIASMS. A GREAT many chemical compounds, some derived
from inorganic nature, and others formed in animals and plants, ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1841)
"and the volatile contagions, which are propagated not only by contact, but by
the atmosphere, and, therefore, may prevail as extensive epidemic distempers, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1843)
"contagions and miasms, leads on to the chemistry of physiology ; a subject more
fully treated in that second work of Professor Liebig's, already adverted to ..."
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