enthetic

The discussion of this subject will occur on a later page as a part of the general topic of the causation of enthetic diseases.

Is a special proclivity to any of the group of enthetic febrile diseases ever inherited?

Enthetic causation—viz. that of all contagious, endemic, and epidemic diseases.

Two important factors, especially, must be kept in view in comparing the causation of diseases in colder and warmer countries—namely, the difference in the articles of food partaken of in each, and the external sources of enthetic disorders; e.g. endemic and epidemic fevers, etc.

Enthetic causation is a large subject, including all origination of disease by the introduction of morbid materials from without the body.6 Medical opinion has generally accepted, and facts fully sustain, the recognition of three groups of enthetic disorders, viz.: those which are personally contagious; such as are locally epidemic; and epidemic diseases.