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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):7-21; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn254
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

Anticontagionism between 1821 and 1867{diamondsuit},*

The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture

Erwin H Ackerknecht

Accepted 30 October 2008

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Nothing might perhaps orient us quicker in our subject matter than perusal of what Hippolyte Marie Bernheim (1840-1919) (who was a contagionist himself and an authority on epidemic diseases before he became famous as a psychotherapist) had to say in 1877 concerning Jacob Henle, the teacher of Robert Koch.1 Henle lives in our minds and textbooks as the man who "produced the first clear statement of the idea of a contagium animatum," who fought a bold vanguard action. To Bernheim the situation appeared as follows:

"The serious observers recognized the emptiness of these fantastic concepts. Towards the middle of the century the doctrine of the contagium animatum was generally abandoned as a product of the imagination, lacking scientific foundations. Among medical leaders Henle was perhaps the last who defended in 1853 with strong determination the doctrine of the contagium vivum which he had defended already in 1840 with great logical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   ANTICONTAGIONISM AND YELLOW FEVER
 

   CHOLERA AND ANTICONTAGIONISM
 

   PLAGUE AND ANTICONTAGIONISM
 

   TYPHUS AND ANTICONTAGIONISM
 

   PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ANTICONTAGIONISM
 

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