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Contagionism is an outdated suggestion, yet received new lifestyles in recovery Britain. Germ of an idea considers British contagionism in its non secular, social, political context from the nice Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It indicates how principles approximately contagion replaced drugs and the knowledge of acute ailments.
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78 Hugh Trevor-Roper claimed that “chemistry in France was a Huguenot industry” not because the Huguenots were more “modern” than the Catholics but because they had been forced to be more cosmopolitan. Troubles at home led them to seek training in German universities, to serve German princes, and to work in German institutions. 79 This, however, oversimplifies the chain of causation. It was rebellion against traditional ideas that led French families to convert to Protestantism in the first place.
56 Their numbers would gradually shrink again as the Fellows appointed by James retired or died. Many Restoration Fellows had unconventional educations. As Dr. ”57 Though fractious, these members gave the College a more intellectually vibrant character than it would enjoy later in the century. Naturalists such as Robinson, Lister, Sloane, Grew, and Tyson would become leading figures in the Royal Society. 58 Dissenters displaced by the Act of Uniformity needed new occupations, but even outside London medical careers presented new obstacles.
Endowed with a special nature and method of causing putrefaction . . 33 A seed of a particular plant can only reproduce that plant; Fracastoro’s use of the word “seed” does not imply that he believed that the pathogen was alive, but it does imply specificity. Moreover, for Fracastoro these seeds were no mere metaphor: he insisted that disease particles reproduced themselves. It may seem that Fracastoro was very close to a doctrine of contagium vivum, but in fact his conception of the nature of the disease-causing matter was closer to that of an enzyme: some substance that could cause a chemical recombination of the elements within matter.