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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Lodi

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1835 –1836

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Del mal del segno calcinaccio o moscardino malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le piu infestate. 2 vols.

BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)
BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)

Bassi preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms--a disease that was destroying the sil…