Scrutinium Physico-Medicum
Scrutinium Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Luis, Quae Pestis Dicitur ("A Physico-Medical Examination of the Contagious Pestilence Called the Plague") is a 1658 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, containing his observations and theories about the bubonic plague that struck Rome in the summer of 1656. Kircher was the first person to view infected blood through a microscope, and his observations are described in the book. The work was printed on the presses of Vitale Mascardi and dedicated to Pope Alexander VII.
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