Origines contagii / Scripsit C.F.H. Marx.

  • Karl Friedrich Heinrich Marx
Date:
1824
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Credit: Origines contagii / Scripsit C.F.H. Marx. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quod pestem contagiosam esse negabat') ses Liond. 1817. C£. Medical repository. New York. New Series. vol, 4. 1818. p. 157. ubi ejus sententia breviter comprehensa est: „Dr. M, undertakes to prove that the doctrine of con- tagion, ‘of epidemic, or pestilential diseases, was unknown to Hippocrates, and to the an- cient physicians; that it never was entertained by any Pagan, Mahommedan, or Hindu nation, not even by the Christians until about the middle of the sixteenth century, when Pope Paul III, wishing to influence the council of Trent, and to remove that body from the im- perial dominions into his own city of Bolog- na, emnloyed the authority of the physician of the Council, Hieronimus Fracastorius, to publish a book of tales, with the view of frightenizg the fathers, on the score of an or- dinary complaint thenprevailing in T'rent, which by him was represented as fatal as the pla- gue, especially to persons of noble blood”, 5) Nullam febrilem affectionem contagione prae- ditam esse contendit, suamque sententiam et Procopii loco, quo pestis contagio caruisse di- eitur, corroboratum it, John Mitchell: on the Contagion by which it is believed Fever is excited, in the London med, Reposit. vol. 11, 1519, p. 191 adeoque in fine disputationis ait:
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