TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santer,Melvin
TI  - Confronting contagion: our evolving understanding of disease 
SN  - 9780199356355 (hbk. : acidfree paper)
AV  - RA643 .S356 2015
U1  - 616.9 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - History
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Causes and theories of causation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331) and index; 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
ER  -