The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contagionist \Con*ta"gion*ist\, n. One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
Wiktionary
n. One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, such as yellow fever.
Usage examples of "contagionist".
The generous fellow, with a good-humoured laugh at the terrors of the contagionists, marched straight up to me, and forcibly seized my hand, and shook it with manly violence.
If the disease is of an erysipelatous nature, as many suppose, contagionists may perhaps find some ground for their belief in the fact, that, for two weeks previous to my first case of puerperal fever, I had been attending a severe case of erysipelas, and the infection may have been conveyed through me to the patient.
To the contagionist, filled as he is with the dread of final causes, having no faith in destiny nor in the fixed will of God, and with none of the devil-may-care indifference which might stand him instead of creeds - to such one, every rag that shivers in the breeze of a plague-stricken city has this sort of sublimity.