The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical Essays, 1842-1882
The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical Essays, 1842-1882
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
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But there are cases enough that show the prevar lence of the disease among the patients of a single practitioner when it vras in no degree epidemic, in the proper sense of the term. I may refer to those of Mr. Boberton and of Dr. Peirson, hereafter to be cited, as examples. 2. I shall not enter into any dispute about the par- ticular mode of infection, whether it be by the atmoch phere the physician carries about him into the sick- chamber, or by the direct application of the virus to the absor...bing surfaces with which his hand comes in contact. Many facts and opinions are in favor of each of these modes of transmission. But it is obvious that in the majority of cases it must be impossible to decide by which of these channels the disease is oon- Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE COKTA6IOUSN1S88 OF FUEKPEBAL FEVER. 188 veyed, from the nature of the interoourse between the physician and the patient. 8. It is not pretended that the contagion of pner- peral fever must always be followed by the disease.
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