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Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar who proposed the first theory of contagion and described syphilis and foot-and-mouth disease. He also wrote an epic poem on syphilis and a biblical poem on Joseph, and his portrait by Titian is in the National Gallery.
Aug 4, 2024 · Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, astronomer, and geologist, who proposed a scientific germ theory of disease more than 300 years before its empirical formulation by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. At the University of Padua Fracastoro was a colleague of the astronomer Copernicus.
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Jan 22, 2021 · Learn about Fracastoro's life, works, and contributions to the study of contagious diseases. He proposed a theory of "seeds of disease" that influenced later germ theory, and advocated personal hygiene to prevent infection.
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Aug 6, 2021 · Girolamo Fracastoro (1476-1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar who proposed a scientific germ theory for contagious diseases. He also wrote a famous poem on syphilis, a disease he believed was caused by invisible seeds in the air.
May 18, 2018 · A biography of Girolamo Fracastoro, a Renaissance physician, philosopher, and poet from Verona, Italy. Learn about his life, works, and contributions to medicine, philosophy, and natural sciences.
Nov 30, 2014 · Girolamo Fracastoro was a true Italian Renaissance man: he excelled in literature, poetry, music, geography, geology, philosophy, astronomy and, of course, medicine to the point that made Charles-Edward Armory Winslow define him as "a peak unequaled by anyone between Hippocrates and Pasteur".
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Oct 28, 2022 · A comprehensive overview of the life and works of Girolamo Fracastoro, a sixteenth-century Italian physician, poet, and philosopher. Learn about his contributions to medicine, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry, and his influence on natural philosophy.
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