Diseases Girolamo Fracastoro Medical History book German 1910 book of works by Hieronymus Fracastoro Start Price USD 24.99 Current Price USD 24.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Upper Marlboro, MD See more about 'Diseases Girolamo Fracastoro Medical History book ' Description       Klassiker der Medizinherausgegeben von Karl SudhoffHieronymus FracastoroDrei Buchervon den Kontagien, den kontagiosenKrankheiten und deren Behandlung(1546)Ubersetzt und eingeleitetvonProf. Dr. Viktor FosselLeipzigVerlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth1910      DetailsDruck von Metzger & Wittig in LeipzigKlassiker der Medizin; Band 5Hardcover; 5 x 7 ¾ inches; book in German; and 128 pages.   Table of Contents Von den Kontagien; Von den anssteckenden Krankheiten; Von der Behandlung der kontagiosen Krankheiten Defects and Condition Ex-library with two library labels on front cover; library stamps on page sides (top, bottom, and fore edge); and library due date list on front end paper. The cover has light edge wear and wear on spine cover ends. The binding overall is not loose.The pages are clean.      Click picture to see full size!!             For my eBay items click here!   More information on this auction Hieronymus FracastoroBelow from WikipediaGirolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (1478-August 8, 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist.Born of an ancient family in Verona, and educated at Padua where at 19 he was appointed professor at the University. On account of his eminence in the practice of medicine, he was elected physician of the Council of Trent. A bronze statue was erected in his honor by the citizens of Padua, while his native city commemorated their great compatriot by a marble statue. He lived and practised in his hometown. In 1546 he proposed that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable tiny particles or "spores" that could transmit infection by direct or indirect contact or even without contact over long distances. In his writing, the "spores" of disease may refer to chemicals rather than to any living entities."I call fomites [from the Latin fomes, meaning "tinder"] such things as clothes, linen, etc., which although not themselves corrupt, can nevertheless foster the essential seeds of the contagion and thus cause infection."[1]His theory remained influential for nearly three centuries, before being displaced by germ theory.[2]The name for syphilis is derived from Fracastoro's 1530 epic poem in three books, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus ("Syphilis or The French Disease"), about a shepherd named Syphilus. The poem suggests using mercury and "guaiaco" as a cure. His 1546 book (De contagione -- "On Contagion") also gave the first description for typhus. The collected works of Fracastoro appeared for the first time in 1555.  Place a Bid!