Diskussion:Felix Platter (Mediziner, 1536)
Felix Platter -- der Begründer der modernen Keimtheorie[Quelltext bearbeiten]
"Nardi, as it happens, does not mention Fracastoro. His authority (apart from Lucretius himself) is Felix Platter. Platter, in his De Febribus (1597) ... had explicitly rejected arguments for the spontaneous generation of plague and syphilis, since these could not account for the fact that these were new diseases -- if they could be spontaneously generated they would have arisen over and over again. ... He thus carefully propounds the theory that these diseases are spread by seeds or germs [in Latin: "semen" -- wrongly understood not as "germs", but as "seminal fluid" after Platter and until Bassi] ... Platter is thus a proper germ theorist, the earliest known to me" (David Wootton, 2006: Bad Medicine - Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, p. 127).
Siehe auch den viel besseren Artikel im englischen Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory
Hier sieht man wieder mal, dass eine falsche Übersetzung (also: ein Sprachproblem...) den "Fortschritt" der Medizin um Jahrhunderte aufgehalten hat... (nicht signierter Beitrag von 85.2.161.4 (Diskussion) 19:52, 20. Feb. 2011 (CET))