- Title
- Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur ; quo origo, causae, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturae effectus, qui statis temporibus, caelestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis : tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, unà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis nouâ doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, creator
- MDCLVIII [1658]
1658 - Italy
Romae - Typis Mascardi
- [16], 252, [16] p. ; 23 cm.
- Latin
- Early works
Early works to 1800 - Books and documents
- Plague--Early works to 1800
Plague--Etiology--Early works to 1800
Plague--Italy--Naples--History--17th century
Medicine--Early works to 1800
Plague - Italy--Rome
- "Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Opt. Max."
Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"--Garrison-Morton.
Signatures: +-2+⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶.
Includes index.
Woodcuts: arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia; type ornament on title page.
"Errores": p. [15] (3rd group). - Open Collections Program at Harvard University
- RC171 .K55
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine - 990058668780203941
- Title
- Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur ; quo origo, causae, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturae effectus, qui statis temporibus, caelestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis : tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, unà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis nouâ doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur
- Creator / Contributor
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, creator
- Date
- MDCLVIII [1658]
1658 - Place of Origin
- Italy
Romae - Publisher
- Typis Mascardi
- Extent
- [16], 252, [16] p. ; 23 cm.
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- Early works
Early works to 1800 - Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Plague--Early works to 1800
Plague--Etiology--Early works to 1800
Plague--Italy--Naples--History--17th century
Medicine--Early works to 1800
Plague - Places
- Italy--Rome
- Notes
- "Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Opt. Max."
Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"--Garrison-Morton.
Signatures: +-2+⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶.
Includes index.
Woodcuts: arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia; type ornament on title page.
"Errores": p. [15] (3rd group). - Series
- Open Collections Program at Harvard University
- Classification
- RC171 .K55
- Repository
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine - Record ID
- 990058668780203941
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