@article{2732,
  keywords = {Animals, Communicable Diseases, Greece, Ancient, History, Ancient, Humans, leprosy, Magic, Malaria, Religion, Zoonoses},
  author = {Gourevitch D},
  title = {[Two states in the history of the concept of contagion: from Hippocrates to Galen].},
  abstract = {<p>The Hippocratic doctor does not believe any more in magico-religious "miasmata" that pollute whole populations; he accuses the environmental air, thus freeing his fellow-men from the fear of gods' wrath but impeding the rise of the concept of contagion and disconnecting his own experience from the vet's. Galen however observing a few cases of lepra in Minor Asia intuits human contagion.</p>},
  year = {2001},
  journal = {Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine},
  volume = {185},
  pages = {977-86},
  month = {2001},
  issn = {0001-4079},
  language = {fre},
}