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Excerpt from An Explanation: Of the Phenomena of Immunity and Contagion, Based Upon the Action of Physical and Biological Laws This subject has occupied a large share of my attention for many years. From observing nature's methods in other departments of science - how, through the action of physical laws, physical results are obtained - the conviction grew upon me that physical law would furnish the key that would unlock our problem. The subject was so complex, the observed phenomena were apparently so diverse and even contradictory, that a long time elapsed before I was able to report any progress. In 1887 I published the first results which I obtained by this method. Notwithstanding the subject was still very hazy at that time, I could see how the laws of wave-motion, when applied to the motion of organic molecules, would explain some of the phenomena of contagion, but the complete elucidation of the subject had not yet dawned upon me. Francis Galton says: "Few intellectual pleasures are more keen than those enjoyed by a person who, while he is occupied in some special inquiry, suddenly perceives that it admits of a wide generalization, and that his results hold good in previously unsuspected directions." While thinking over the phenomena of contagion and immunity, and the laws of wave-motion, the beautiful law of interference occurred to me, when it flashed over me that the application of this law to molecular wave-motion completed the chain of evidence. I felt very much as I imagine did Archimedes when he sprang from his bath and ran naked, shouting "Eureka," through the streets of Syracuse. Time will not allow an attempt to kaleidoscope the history and varied opinions regarding contagion; suffice it that in this, as in the evolution of other questions of science, the theories offered from time to time were based upon such information of the subject as was then known, and all possess some truth. In the light of our present knowledge it can be safely asserted that contagium is a particulate substance; that it is capable, when suitably environed, of increasing itself indefinitely by multiplication of its particles; that in this increase it produces only its own kind, and does this as unerringly as do animal or vegetable species in their increase by generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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