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Von den Miasmen und Contagien. In his Pathologische Untersuchungen, pp. 1-82.Berlin: August Hirschwald, 1840.Bassi’s work on the muscardine disease of silkworms (see No. 2532), with its prophecy of the discovery of microbes as the causal agents of other diseases, inspired Henle to write this famous essay on miasms and contagions. He laid down postulates on the aetiological relation of microbes to disease which became fundamentals of bacteriology and which did much to check the reckless speculation which had arisen regarding micro-organisms. Koch later developed these postulates (see Nos. 2331, 2332, 2536, and 5167). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. English translation in Bull. Hist. Med., 1936, 6, 911-83. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › GENERAL PRINCIPLES of Infection by Microorganisms, MICROBIOLOGY Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/3517 |