Niccolò Massa was called into question whether the sickness in Venice was actually the Bubonic Plague.[1] Upon examining the sickness in a Galenic nature he determined that because the sickness was affecting all people with no exceptions to age, sex, or occupation that it must be through the air. This connection came from the Hippocratic belief the elements in the human body.[2] The one element common to all is air and Massa concluded that it was responsible. This disease, in Massa’s eyes, was caused by an occurrence of warm and damp weather of which corrupted the air.