Dr. Jarcho's scholarly work highlights the
relationship between medicine, literature, and religion. He describes what the ancient Greeks and Romans wrote, and may have thought about contagion and what caused the spread of disease. He then considers Moslem ideas on the subject, and follows these with writings by saints, theologians and controversialists in both religious and nonreligious contexts. His final section presents detailed writings of Leonicenus (1428-1524), a physician and classical scholar, and those of
Fracastorius (ca. 1478-1553), an astronomer, cartographer, and philosopher. |
