On Miasmata and Contagia
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1938
- Publisher
- Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine
- Retrieved
- Jun 4, 2012
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Metaphor for the Spread of Disease
To choose a rough example, think of a thorn which has stuck in a finger and produces an inflammation and suppuration. Should the thorn be discharged with the pus, then the finger of another individual may be pricked with it, and the disease may be produced a second time. In this case it would not be the disease, not…