The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

[1039] Adams’ Hippocrates, vol. i. p. 77.

[1040] Ency. Brit., art. “Insanity.”

[1041] Hospitals and Asylums, vol. i. p. 62.

[1042] Hist. Med., p. 347.

[1043] Cruikshank, Bacteriology, p. 2.

[1044] Woodhead, Bacteria and their Products, p. 52.

[1045] Opera Medico-Physica, Tractatio de Contagio, le Lue Bovina, de Variolis; de Scarlatina.

[1046] Bacteria and their Products, p. 59.

[1047] Schwann (1810-1882) discovered the influence of the lower fungi in causing fermentation and putrefaction, so that he may be called the father of the germ theory of disease.

[1048] Manual of Bacteriology, p. 16.