Contagious and Epidemic Diseases Considered With Reference to Quarantine and Sanitary Laws: Is Yellow Fever Contagious? (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It has been stated that a contagious disease is a disease capable of being communicated from person to person. It is produced by an animal poison, and it has no other known cause. This animal poison is the product of a peculiar secre tion of the animal economy. The character which is essen tial to it is the power of producing, when applied to a healthy person, a similar disease.

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