Fracastorius

Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (c. 1476/8 – 6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar and poet.

Quotes

 * [Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle.
 * Hieronymi Fracastorii De Contagione Et Contagiosis Morbis Et Eorum Curatione, Libri III (1930), translation and notes by Wilmer Cave Wright, p. 5

Quotes about Fracastorius

 * A peak unequaled by anyone between Hippocrates and Pasteur.
 * Charles-Edward Armory Winslow, in The Conquest of Epidemic Disease, 1943.