De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber unus. De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione libri III

by Girolamo Fracastoro

$9,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Venice: Heirs of Lucantonio Giunta, 1546. First edition of Fracastoro’s most important scientific work, forming “the foundation of all modern views on the nature of infectious diseases” Heirs of Hippocrates 101 . “The first scientific definition of contagion known and a competent discussion of causes of infection. Gives a clear account of typhus” Stillwell, The Awakening Interest in

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