单词 | non-contagionist |
释义 | non-contagionistn. Medicine. Now historical. A person who believes that disease, or a disease (esp. yellow fever or cholera), is not contagious. 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 1824 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 172 A foreign physician..ascertained the ratio of non-contagionists to be 567 to 28 contagionists. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 817/1 Of 250 officers, comprising the medical staff in Bengal, all but one are non-contagionists. 1860 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 457 It is the difference of opinion as to the manner in which diseases propagate themselves, between contagionists and non-contagionists, that causes all the discussion. 1988 Amer. Hist. Rev. 93 1017/2 Chervin,..a firm noncontagionist, believed that yellow fever..arose spontaneously. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1824 |
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