enthetic

While endeavoring to ascertain the limits of our present knowledge upon these questions, let us first notice what are the most positive facts concerning them, some of which are common to the whole group or class of what have been, since Liebig, often called zymotic,7 but latterly more often enthetic, diseases.

Particularly near the beginning of an attack of enthetic disease, such as scarlet fever, small-pox, typhus or typhoid fever, the physician should beware of too confidently forecasting the progress of the case for better or for worse.

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

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