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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs (including local catalogs, Google Books, and Internet Archive) yielded no evidence of an English translation of Athanasius Kircher's 'Scrutinium Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Luis quae Pestis Dicitur' (1658). While Kircher's works are frequently cited in medical history and bibliographies, no complete or partial English translation of this specific text was identified.
Verified Apr 1, 2026 via local catalogs, open library, google books, internet archive, openalex · methodology
Athanasius Kircher invites you into the seventeenth-century struggle to understand the invisible killers that wiped out cities. He combines theological dread with early microbiology to explain why plague happens and how it moves through the air.