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ZYMOTIC DISEASES (Gr. v7, ferment)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 1064 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZYMOTIC DISEASES (Gr. v7, ferment) , a
term
  in
medicine
 , formerly applied to the class of acute infectious maladies. As originally employed by Dr W. Farr, of the British Registrar-General's department, the
term
  included the diseases which were " epidemic, endemic and contagious," and were regarded as owing their origin to the presence of a morbific principle in the
system
 , acting in a manner analogous to, although not identical with, the process of fermentation. A large number of diseases were accordingly included under this designation. The term, however, came to be restricted in medical nomenclature to the
chief
  fevers and contagious diseases (e.g. typhus and typhoid fevers, smallpox,
scarlet
 
fever
 , measles, erysipelas,
cholera
 , whooping-cough,
diphtheria
 , &c.). The science of
bacteriology
  has displaced the old fermentation theory, and the term has practically dropped out of use.


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