TY - JOUR
KW - Animals
KW - Communicable Diseases
KW - Greece, Ancient
KW - History, Ancient
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Magic
KW - Malaria
KW - Religion
KW - Zoonoses
AU - Gourevitch D
AB - <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>
BT - Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11717851?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2001
IS - 5
J2 - Bull. Acad. Natl. Med.
LA - fre
N2 - <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>
PY - 2001
SP - 977
EP - 86
T2 - Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine
TI - [Two states in the history of the concept of contagion: from Hippocrates to Galen].
VL - 185
SN - 0001-4079
ER -