Santer, Melvin, <br/><br/>
Confronting contagion :  our evolving understanding of disease / 
Melvin Santer. 
 - xix, 353 pages ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index. 
<br/><br/> Homer-Hesiod-Torah-Greek Playwrights.  Philosophers.  Hippocratic Writings.  Galen.  After Galen.  The Causes of Plague (The Black Death) in Europe 1348-1350 CE.  The Late Renaissance Period.  Mechanical Philosophy, the Revival of Atomism, and Contagious Disease Theory in the Seventeenth Century.  The Discovery of Microscopic Life.  The Cause of Plague in France in 1720 CD.  Plant Diseases Are Caused by Living Microscopic Cells (Fungi) That Are Not Spontaneously Generated.  The Nineteenth Century.  Filterable Agents, Designated as Viruses, Cause Contagious Diseases of Plants, Animals, Humans, and Bacteria. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199356355 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014010298 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Communicable diseases--History.<br/>Diseases--Causes and theories of causation.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA643  / .S356 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.9 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WC 11.1