Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553),Italian physician and philosopher,historical artwork. Fracastoro proposed an early theory of the germ origin of disease. His major work,'De Contagione' (1546),gave the first logical explanation of the long-known facts that some diseases can be passed from person to person or by infected objects. He proposed that infection is due to tiny self-multiplying bodies. Not widely accepted at the time,his ideas were vindicated by Louis Pasteur and others in the 19th century. Image from 'La Conquete Du Monde Invisible' by Giuseppe Penso | |
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