Contagia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 238 anagrams from letters in contagia (aacginot).
1645-55; Latin, equivalent to contāg- (see contagion) + -ium -ium
Nevertheless Kircher (mentioned already) is usually given undeserved credit for the contagium vivum theory.
Indeed, Oznam, in 1820, said it was no use to waste time in refuting hypotheses as to the animal nature of contagium.
It does not follow that the contagium is the sole cause in every case in which it is present.
In his recent discourse upon the plague, he asks and answers the question, 'What is the contagium?'
They believe that the "lungs are the favorite breeding-ground of the contagium."
He also made some remarkable experiments on the permanence of the contagium in the form of spores.
Thus the theory of contagium vivum, for which Henle contended as early as 1821, was not forgotten.
For my part, I should be inclined to ascribe to penetration rather than to presumption the notion of a contagium animatum.
There was but one way open to him to test the activity of the contagium, and that was the inoculation with it of living animals.
He then sought to determine how the contagium maintained its vitality.