Typhoid fever; its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention.

Budd insisted that typhoid fever was spread by contagion and established the fact that infection with typhoid came from the dejecta of the patients; he strengthened the theory of water-born infection. See also his earlier papers in Lancet, 1856, 2, 617, 694; 1859, 2, (several papers); 1860, 1, (several papers).