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[Contagion] passes from one thing to another, and is originally caused by infection of the imperceptible particle.
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Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
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August 6, 1553
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Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation.
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