Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur ; quo origo, causae, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturae effectus, qui statis temporibus, caelestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis : tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, unà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis nouâ doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur

Creator/Contributor:

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, creator

Creation Date:

MDCLVIII [1658]
1658

Place Of Origin:

Italy
Romae

Publisher:

Typis Mascardi

Extent:

[16], 252, [16] p. ; 23 cm.

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Early works to 1800

Digital Format:

Books and documents

Subjects:

Plague--Early works to 1800
Plague--Etiology--Early works to 1800
Plague--Italy--Naples--History--17th century
Medicine--Early works to 1800

Places:

Italy--Rome

Notes:

"Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Opt. Max."
Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"--Garrison-Morton.
Signatures: +-2+⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶.
Includes index.
Woodcuts: arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of t.p.; head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia; type ornament on title page.
"Errores": p. [15] (3rd group).
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2007. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Contagion).

Series:

Open Collections Program at Harvard University

Classification:

RC171 .K55

Repository:

Houghton Library, Harvard University
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Record ID:

990058668780203941

HOLLIS Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990058668780203941/catalog

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