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search   Budd possessed, with extensive learning and great
practical knowledge of disease, clearness of mental vision and
remarkable strength of conviction, so that he expressed himself
in a dogmatic yet singularly attrac- tive manner in enforcing
his views, which being at the time novel met with strenuous
opposition. His kindness of disposition and freedom from
jealousy were at all times manifest. His eloquence was
impressive, and his logical power as shown in tracing out the
causes of disease was of the highest order. His principal work,
‘Typhoid Fever; its Nature, Mode of Spreading, and Prevention,’
London, 1873, reproducing in a more complete form what he had
previously published in the medical journals, proved beyond
dispute that typhoid fever is contagious, and is propagated
chiefly by matter discharged from the intestine. In it he traced
the course of an outbreak of the disease in North Tawton in
1839, and showed how a number of cases which oc