Author: HENLE, (F.G.J.),
Title: Pathologische Untersuchungen.
Description: Berlin, Hirschwald, A., 1840. Contemp. brds. (Top of sp.dam., sp. & edges badly rubb.). (VIII, 274 pp.). Hirsch III, 162/5: G&M. 2533: 'Bassi's work on the muscardine disease of silkworms, with its prophecy of the discovery of microbes as the casual agents of other diseases, inspired Henle to write his famous essay on miasms and contagions (Path. Unters. pp. 1-82). He laid down postulates on the aetiological relation of microbes to disease which became fundamentals of bacterioloy...': Long, Hist. of path., 144 '...he laid down postulates ...which were later extended by Koch as the fundamental principles of bacteriology.' :Norman Coll., 1051: Waller I, 4336: First edition.

Keywords: pathology aetiology contagious medicine