TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - DeLacy, Margaret,
CN  - R486
ID  - 772011
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Epidemics
KW  - Plague
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Medicine
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-137-57529-6
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9781137575296
SN  - 1137575298
T1  - The germ of an idea :contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730 /
TI  - The germ of an idea :contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730 /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-137-57529-6
ER  -