00994nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260000900042653001200051653002600063653002000089653002100109653001100130653001200141653001000153653001200163653001300175653001300188100001700201245008800218300001100306490000800317520040100325022001400726       2001                            d  c200110aAnimals10aCommunicable Diseases10aGreece, Ancient10aHistory, Ancient10aHumans10aleprosy10aMagic10aMalaria10aReligion10aZoonoses1 aGourevitch D00a[Two states in the history of the concept of contagion: from Hippocrates to Galen].  a977-860 v1853 a<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>  a0001-4079