inˈfectionist rare.
[f. prec. + -ist.]
One who lays stress upon infection as a cause of disease.
| 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer xxxvii, The appeal was unfortunate, both for the appealer and the doctor. The latter was an infectionist. 1865 Pall Mall G. 18 Aug. 9/2 An ardent ‘infectionist’, says that, in the very same quarter of London, those who used the Southwark and Vauxhall Company's water..died at the rate of seventy-one to every ten thousand houses. 1865 Intell. Observer No. 44. 128 The ultra contagionist or infectionist. |