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as we'll see, made the idea
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of dyscrasia improbable as a mechanism
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needed to explain epidemic disease,
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because it's fairly flimsy
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as a basis for explaining why so many people,
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in a single place, at a single moment of time,
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had their equilibria all unbalanced at the same moment.
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So, the experience of epidemic disease is important,
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and we'll see the physician,
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Fracastoro, came up with the idea
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of contagionism many centuries ago.
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In the nineteenth century we'll see also,