@article{772011,
      recid = {772011},
      author = {DeLacy, Margaret,},
      title = {The germ of an idea : contagionism, religion, and society  in Britain, 1660-1730 /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {Germ of an Idea shows how a belief in contagion began to  spread among a group of medical reformers who had been  forced by nationality and religious nonconformity to follow  alternative pathways to medical education and professional  status in early eighteenth century Britain. It explains how  contagionism shaped their ideas about the nature and  behavior of diseases such as smallpox, plague, syphilis,  and consumption and how it interacted with the belief that  diseases were not imbalances, but specific entities.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/772011},
}