...classes of minds, chiefly in the southern and less educated parts of Europe, a satisfactory explanation for pestilence and an adequate excuse for non-exertion...propagates the original disease by inoculation — such * The history of the doctrine of ' Contagion ' is given by Dr. Adams in his very learned tranalation...

...in the southern and less educated parts of Europe, a satisfactory explanation for pestilence and au adequate excuse for non-exertion to prevent its recurrence....word, there is no proof, such as would be admitted iu any scientific inquiry, that there is any such thing as ' contagion.' There are two or three diseases...

...country ; but if it happen to be eaten on the voyage, its feathers cannot be admitted without t,langer to the entire community. There is no end to the absurdities...propagates the original disease by inoculation — such * The history of the doctrine of ' Contagion ' is given by Dr. Adams in his very learned translation...

...word was. What did it mean? It implied the communication of disease from person to person by contact. Suffice it to say that in the ordinary sense of the word there was no such thing as -contagion, and the imponderable nonentities which made up the list of contagions...

...all surroundings. Notwit nding Miss Nightingale's statement that, " in the ordinary sense of tl rd, there is no proof such as would be admitted in any scientific i ry, that there is any such thing as contagion," and, in speaking of ii tious diseases, that " in...

...contagion — implying the communication of disease from one person to another by means of contact — there is no proof such as would be admitted in any scientific enquiry, and adducing the testimony of Dr. Adams that even with regard to the plague, popularly held...

...courtyards. So isn't it enough, they asked, to implicate toxic miasmas emanating from squalid surroundings? 'There is no proof, such as would be admitted in any...inquiry, that there is any such thing as "contagion"', Nightingale asserted in 1859. To her and her colleagues, what should be done was obvious: disinfect...

...fungi, which can be bottled up and conveyed any distance attached to clothing, to merchandise . . . There is no end to the absurdities connected with...proof such as would be admitted in any scientific enquiry that there is any such thing as contagion.' And as late as 1890, the year he died, Chadwick...