Athanasii Kircheri e soc. Iesu scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur
Subtitle: 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, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis nouâ doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur
Publisher: Typis Mascardi
Published: 1658
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Plague; Early works to 1800; Diagnostic microbiology; Microorganisms; Yersinia pestis; Infectious Disease Transmission
Other titles: Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis
Description: Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"; Cf. Garrison-Morton.
Notes: Includes printed marginal notes.

Signatures: +-2+⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶.

Errata notes on colophon recto, p. [16], at end.

"Ad Alexandrum VII, Pont. Opt. Max".

"Svperiorvm Permissv."; imprimatur, p. [16], begining.

Woodcuts: Arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of t.p.; headpieces, tailpieces and initial letters throughout.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.), 5118

Heirs of Hippocrates, 482

Manchester University Library. Cat. of medical books, 1367

In Latin with Greek references.