Annals of medical history . Volume i Spring 1917 Number i THE SCIENTIFIC POSITION OF GIROLAMO FRACASTORO [14787-1553] WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SOURCE, CHARACTERAND INFLUENCE OF HIS THEORY OF INFECTION By CHARLES AND DOROTHEA SINGER OXFORD, ENGLAND. IROLAMO FRAC-ASTORO was bornin Verona in 1478xand he died in hisvilla near that cityin 1553. He came ofan honorable stockwhich had producedmany distinguished physicians. Of one ofthese, Aventino Fracastoro, who was prac-tising medicine as early as 1325 we readthat he was medica clarissimus arte, astrapoli novit novitque latencia rerum, utileco
Annals of medical history . Volume i Spring 1917 Number i THE SCIENTIFIC POSITION OF GIROLAMO FRACASTORO [14787-1553] WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SOURCE, CHARACTERAND INFLUENCE OF HIS THEORY OF INFECTION By CHARLES AND DOROTHEA SINGER OXFORD, ENGLAND. IROLAMO FRAC-ASTORO was bornin Verona in 1478xand he died in hisvilla near that cityin 1553. He came ofan honorable stockwhich had producedmany distinguished physicians. Of one ofthese, Aventino Fracastoro, who was prac-tising medicine as early as 1325 we readthat he was medica clarissimus arte, astrapoli novit novitque latencia rerum, utileconsilium civibus et I. THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OFFRACASTOR The subject of our study, GirolamoFracastoro, was himself brought up in what 1 The date usually given for Fracastors birth is1483. Reasons for referring the event to 1478 aregiven by Professor Roberto Massalongo in hisGirolamo Fracastoro e la rinascenza della medicina has been called the academic period ofthe Renaissance and received the mostcomplete education available in his day. Inhis youth he attended the University ofPadua, where he had a number of brilliantassociates, several of whom exercised con-siderable influence upon him. Among themwere Gaspare Contarini (1483-1542)
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