Contagium

Quick meaning: Contagium is a noun meaning (archaic) contagion; contagious matter.

Meaning

(archaic) contagion; contagious matter.

Example Sentences

And its escape [from certain diseases] is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, “nor any contagium of scarlet fever, nor any contagium of small-pox, had arisen spontaneously" within its limits.

That this in fact was the case was ascertained by Dr. Edington, who, by adding a large percentage (33 per cent.) of glycerine to the gall taken from a rinderpest beast, was able to show that by such contact the infective power of bile was as effectually destroyed as was the contagium of blood.

Word Forms

• contagia

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