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Girolamo Fracastoro.
Girolamo Fracastoro.

Girolamo Fracastoro (Fracastorius) (1478‑August 8, 1553) was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist. Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health Scholarly method &mdash or as it is more commonly called scholarship &mdash is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία - geografia) is the study of the Earth and its lands features inhabitants and phenomena Astronomy (from the Greek words astron (ἄστρον "star" and nomos (νόμος "law" is the scientific study A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" In Natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects in the universe are composed of very small indestructible building blocks - Atoms Or stated in

Born of an ancient family in Verona, and educated at Padua where at 19 he was appointed professor at the University. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. Padua ( Padova 'padova Latin: Patavium, Padoa) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies The University of Padua ( Italian Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222 On account of his eminence in the practice of medicine, he was elected physician of the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. A bronze statue was erected in his honor by the citizens of Padua, while his native city commemorated their great compatriot by a marble statue. He lived and practised in his hometown. In 1546 he proposed that epidemic diseases are caused by transferable tiny particles or "spores" that could transmit infection by direct or indirect contact or even without contact over long distances. An infectious disease is a clinically evident Disease resulting from the presence of Pathogenic microbial agents including Pathogenic viruses Pathogenic An infection is the detrimental Colonization of a host Organism by a foreign Species. In his writing, the "spores" of disease may refer to chemicals rather than to any living entities.

"I call fomites [from the Latin fomes, meaning "tinder"] such things as clothes, linen, etc. , which although not themselves corrupt, can nevertheless foster the essential seeds of the contagion and thus cause infection. "[1]

His theory remained influential for nearly three centuries, before being displaced by germ theory. [2]

The name for syphilis is derived from Fracastoro's 1530 epic poem in three books, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus ("Syphilis or The French Disease"), about a shepherd named Syphilus. Syphilis is a Sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal Bacterium Treponema pallidum pallidum. The poem suggests using mercury and "guaiaco" as a cure. Oil of guaiac is a Fragrance used in Soap. It comes from the palo santo tree ( Bulnesia sarmientoi) His 1546 book (De contagione -- "On Contagion") also gave the first description for typhus. Typhus is any of several similar diseases caused by Louse -borne bacteria The collected works of Fracastoro appeared for the first time in 1555.

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Fracastoro's landmarks in Verona

Fracastoro's statue. An ancient statue (1559) dedicated to Fracastoro is standing on a beautiful arch in the central Piazza dei Signori,in Verona, just behind the monument to Dante Alighieri. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. On the basement, the following inscription can be read: "HIER FRACASTORIO \ PAULLI PHILIPPI F \ EX PUBLICA AUCTORITATE \ DICATA \ AN SAL MDLIX". According to a popular legend the stone ball Fracastoro keeps in his right hand, symbolizing the world, will fall on the first honourable person walking under the arch. As a matter of fact, many hundreds of people pass every day under the arch but the ball, after more than four Centuries, still remains in its place.

the statue in its context

the statue with the inscription

Works

References

Footnote

  1. ^ On Contagion, Contagious Diseases and Their Cure (1546) by Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553)
  2. ^ http://www2.bartleby.com/65/fr/Fracasto.html The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05.

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