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Zymotic disease
Zymotic diseases
(from the
Greek
word ζυμοῦν
zumoûn
"to ferment") is a 19th-century medical term for acute
infectious diseases
, especially "chief fevers and contagious diseases (e.g.
typhus
and
typhoid fevers
,
smallpox
,
scarlet fever
,
measles
,
erysipelas
,
cholera
,
whooping-cough
,
diphtheria
, &c.)".
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