Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553),Italian physician and philosopher who proposed an early theory of the germ origin of disease. After lecturing in logic at Padua and then practising as a physician in Verona,Fracastoro spent his retirement in research. 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 Pasteur and others in the 19th century. He also wrote one of the first texts on syphilis,& named the disease | |
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