This insect is something like a large house fly, and when it settles on a diseased animal, sucks the blood and infects its proboscis, it is enabled on biting a second animal to infect the latter by direct inoculation.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
It is the misfortune of the great that they breathe an atmosphere of fictitious importance which induces a mental malady, whose taint infects all but the strongest intellects and the largest hearts.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
The husband whom she marries may be a scoundrel who infects her with ruinous disease, but even if she had read all the medical books beforehand it would not have helped her.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg