Marcus von Plenciz

Marcus von Plenciz (1705-1786) was a Viennese physician credited with advancing the germ theory of disease.[1][2] He hypothesized that each disease was caused by a different organism dwelling within the human body, but was unable to offer proof.[3]

References
  1. Joseph Galea (2018). "Doctors during the 1837 Cholera Epidemic in Malta: Unearthing the Truth". Malta Medical Journal. 30 (1).
  2. Plenciz MA (1762). "Opera medico-physica in quatuor digesta, quorum primus contagii morborum, ideam novam una cum additamento de lue bovina". Vindobona (Vienna). (cited in Galea, 2018) alternate viewer
  3. E.H. Buttles (1922-03-15). "Infection and results". Dental Items of Interest. p. 623.
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