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Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar and poet.
Quotes
[Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle.
Hieronymi Fracastorii De Contagione Et Contagiosis Morbis Et Eorum Curatione, Libri III (1930), translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright, p. 5
Quotes about Fracastorius
A peak unequaled by anyone between Hippocrates and Pasteur.
Charles-Edward Armory Winslow, in The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, 1943.
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Category:Physicians
Category:Poets from Italy
Category:1476 births
Category:1553 deaths
Category:People from Veneto