Usage examples (9)

• It is doubtful whether it can be conveyed from one person to another; at least nothing is known concerning the "contagium," or germ of conveyance of infection, --...
• Tui precatus munere nostrum reatum dilue, arcens mali contagium, vitæ repellens tædium.
• In a similar manner a particle of contagium spreads through the human body, and may be so multiplied as to strike down whole populations.
• It is one which occurs in epidemics, but to which children individually are largely susceptible; the actual contagium thereof, however, is likewise unknown to science.