Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur
Subtitle: Quo origo, causæ, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturæ effectus, qui statis temporibus, cælestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis, tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis noua doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur. Ad. ..
Publisher: typis Mascardi
Published: 1658
Place of publication: Romæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Medicine; Early works to 1800; Plague
Other titles: Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur.
Notes: Text is first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious diseases"--Garrison-Morton.

Signatures: [Fourchée cross]-2[Fourchée cross]⁴ A-2I⁴ 2K⁶ (2K6 verso blank)

Coat of arms of Pope Alexander VII on verso of title page.

Errata (p. [23], 3rd count)

Includes index.

JCB Lib. cat., additions 1471-1700, 39.

Backer-Sommervogel 4:1057 (no.16)

Garrison-Morton (4th ed.) 5118.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 658/101.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound, in contemporary vellum, with: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum. Rome, 1656-1657.