Zymotic Disease (Readings)

Zymotic: from the Greek words ‘zyma’~”leaven”, or ‘zymoma’~”fermentation”  =  Applied to those diseases which seem to be occasioned by a virus or poison operating like leaven.

Adapted from Joseph Thomas, A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary, 1870

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Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science.  By Robley Dunglison, 1866

Robley Dunglison.  Medical Lexicon . . . 1876.

Enthetic = introduced from without, as diseases propagated by inoculation

(full article is on Scarlet Fever page)

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Note: Beeton’s medical Dictionary provides the details about the classifications of diseases referred to by Fox.  This system is primarily a consequence of the work of Dr. William Farr, one of the earliest highly successful medical topographers/statisticians.

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