Girolamo Fracastoro the Italian logician and who proposed an early theory of the germ origin of disease.
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Girolamo Fracastoro, 1478 1553, the Italian logician and physician who proposed an early theory of the germ origin of disease. Having been Lecturer in Logic at Padua and then a practicing physician in Verona, Fracastoro spent his retirement in research. His major medical book "On Contagion and Contagious Diseases" (1546) gave the first logical explanation of the long known facts that some diseases can be passed from person to person or passed by infected articles. He proposed that infection is due to minute self multiplying bodies. Although his ideas were not widely adopted at the time they were eventually vindicated by the work of Pasteur and others. Colorized version of BD4656.