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Medicina - Fracastoro, Girolamo

Hieronymi Fracastorij Veronensis. De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber vnus De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione libri III, 1546

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Venice, Lucantonio Giunta heirs, 1546. In 4th. Typographic brand with fleur-de-lys on the title page, numerous woodcut initials, woodworm holes on the first 8 leaves, some stains, light halos, last leaf remounted, binding  back in half parchment and cardboard of the century. XIX, slight stains.

Specialist Notes

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MILESTONES OF MODERN MEDICINE, THE FOUNDING WORK OF MODERN EPIDEMIOLOGY, the first to theorize the relationship between germs and infections.In De Sympathia < /i>Fracastoro lays “the theoretical foundations of the laws that regulate life and communication between bodies in the cosmos”. Garrison-Morton 2528; NLM/Durling 1636; Norman 827; Osler 2652; Waller3163; Wellcome I:2393; Govi , 83. 1546 1

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