De contagione et contagiosis morbis
work by Fracastoro
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discussed in biography
- In Girolamo Fracastoro
…concept of epidemic diseases in De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1546; “On Contagion and Contagious Diseases”), stating that each is caused by a different type of rapidly multiplying minute body and that these bodies are transferred from the infector to the infected in three ways: by direct contact; by carriers…
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Renaissance medicine
- In history of medicine: The spread of new learning
In his great work, De contagione et contagiosis morbis (1546), he theorized that the seeds of certain diseases are imperceptible particles transmitted by air or by contact.
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