Contingent contagionism: Difference between revisions
From WikiMD's Wellness Encyclopedia
CSV import |
CSV import |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
{{dictionary-stub2}} | {{dictionary-stub2}} | ||
{{short-articles-ni}} | {{short-articles-ni}} | ||
{{No image}} | |||
Latest revision as of 10:47, 10 February 2025
Contingent contagionism was a concept in 19th-century medical writing and epidemiology before the germ theory, used as a qualified way of rejecting the application of the term contagious disease for a particular infection. For example, it could be stated that cholera, or typhus, was not contagious in a healthy atmosphere, but might be contagious in an impure atmosphere. Contingent contagionism covered a wide range of views between contagionist, and anti-contagionist such as held by supporters of the miasma theory.
| This article is a stub. You can help WikiMD by registering to expand it. |
