Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes.

  • Whitley Stokes
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on contagion / by Whitley Stokes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    OBSERVATl ^ ^ C h 1 « ft r P ' I our- CONTAGION, <Sfc. As various significations have been attached to the words Infection and Contagion, I think it best to declare what I mean by the latter of these tenns: I w'ould denote a substance produced on the body of an animal diseased, which will, if applied in consi- derable quantity to the body of a healthy animal of the same species, give rise to a similar disease. That such a substance is the cause of Small-pox^ Measles, the Venereal Disease, Itch, and Cow-pock, cannot be doubted. In instances without number, in each of these diseases the matter taken from one morbid human creature has been applied to the skin of another in health, and a disease has been pro duced resembling the parent affection. Many of the persons so aflPected were in such circumstances that there was no ground for supposing that any other cause capable of producing such a disease had operated upon them. Indeed, from the history of
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