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, -- according to the differential diagnosis of Dr.G. Kuhnemann, whose work on the subject is held to be authoritative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

Tui precatus munere nostrum reatum dilue, arcens mali contagium, vitæ repellens tædium.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 23: St. James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr] Reference

In a similar manner a particle of contagium spreads through the human body, and may be so multiplied as to strike down whole populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference

These may be inflicted when horses lie down upon sharp stumps of vegetation or shoe-calk injuries may be the means of introducing contagium, and an infectious inflammation results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference

Experience teaches that the natural course and termination in these cases are modified by the location and depth of the injury, virulency of the contagium and resistance of the subject to such infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference

A sub-coronary abscess which, because of lack of proper care or because of virulency of the contagium or low vitality of the subject, is quite apt to result in cartilaginous affection and its perforation by necrosis follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference

The facts that fevers were catching, that epidemics spread, that infection could remain attached to articles of clothing, etc., all gave support to the view that the actual cause was something alive, a contagium vivum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913] Reference

"contagium," or germ of contagion, is unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference