Looking for sentences and phrases with the word contagium? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Because it never matters until we're waist deep in the lukewarm contagium known as an election year.
Dutch botanist Martinus Bijerinck called this infectious fluid contagium vivum fluidum.
A recent study showed that shaving or waxing can lead to micro trauma that may increase the spread of some viral infections, in particular molluscum contagium.
Examples from Classical Literature
There was no single escape from death after inoculation by this deadly contagium.
Thus the theory of contagium vivum, for which Henle contended as early as 1821, was not forgotten.
It does not follow that the contagium is the sole cause in every case in which it is present.
Nevertheless Kircher is usually given undeserved credit for the contagium vivum theory.
Indeed, Oznam, in 1820, said it was no use to waste time in refuting hypotheses as to the animal nature of contagium.
There was but one way open to him to test the activity of the contagium, and that was the inoculation with it of living animals.
He also made some remarkable experiments on the permanence of the contagium in the form of spores.
For my part, I should be inclined to ascribe to penetration rather than to presumption the notion of a contagium animatum.
He then sought to determine how the contagium maintained its vitality.
