单词 | infectionist |
释义 | infectionistn. Medicine. Now historical. A person who believes that a particular disease is infectious (i.e. spread by indirect means, as by contaminated water) rather than contagious (i.e. spread by close contact with the sick). Cf. contagionist n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > concerning disease localista1633 non-contagionist1824 infectionist1830 contagionist1831 solidist1842 naturist1848 neuropath1876 organicist1879 unicist1890 1830 Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 12 385 It will be evident..that our intelligent author considers the war which has been maintained so long between the contagionists and infectionists as one merely of words. 1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer II. x. 122 The appeal was unfortunate, both for the appealer and the doctor. The latter was an infectionist. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Aug. 9/2 An ardent ‘infectionist’, says that, in the very same quarter of London, those who used the Southwark and Vauxhall Company's water..died at the rate of seventy-one to every ten thousand houses. 1923 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 July 149/2 The infectionists were beginning to have it all their own way under the influence of a somewhat misleading analogy between tuberculosis and the more acute infectious diseases. 2002 D. Madell tr. P. Pinell Fight against Cancer i. 9 The violent controversy which exploded at the start of the nineteenth century, at first regarding the particular case of yellow fever, then cholera, polarised the two camps of the ‘contagionists’ and the ‘infectionists’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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