Title: Athanasii Kircheri e soc. Iesu scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur
Description: Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"; Cf. Garrison-Morton.
Subjects: Plague, Early works to 1800, Diagnostic microbiology, Microorganisms, Yersinia pestis, Infectious Disease Transmission