FRACASTORO GIROLAMO Liber unus De Sympathia Antipathia reru

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FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO. Liber unus, De Sympathia & Antipathia reru[m]. Item, De Contagione & Contagiosis Morbis, & eorum curatione, Lib. III. Title within woodcut arabesque border. 351 pages. 16mo, 19th-century black morocco, covers detached; margins trimmed slightly affecting outer margin of title border, title soiled, clean tear in e8, institutional stamp on title verso and blank last page; bookplate. Lyon: Jean de Tournes & Guillaume Gazeau, 1554

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Fracastoro's most important work, first published in 1546, a landmark in the history of epidemiology. "The book consists of a short theoretical discourse on sympathy and antipathy in physics and a longer, more practical account of contagion and contagious diseases. Here, for the first time, was a clear description of the spread of disease by 'seminaria contagionum,' the seeds of infection--the suggestion of the germ theory"--Lilly Library, Notable Medical Books, page 23. Durling 1638; Garrison-Morton 2528; Norman 827.