Theories to cure cholera
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- Created on: 29-04-14 09:20
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- Theories to cure cholera
- Contagionist Theory
- Suggested cholera was spread by contact with cholera victums
- Oppositions argued that not everyone in the same household fell ill with cholera and therefore theory couldn't be true
- Miasmic Theory
- cholera was spread by the form of 'infected air'
- This theory led to the removal of heaps of excrement
- 1831 The Lancet
- a journal written by doctors on the Jewish community
- Reported they kept themselves free from cholera by rubbing a special ointment on themselve
- Patent Medicines
- Medicines all claiming to cure cholera
- many who did take them did survive
- Medicines all claiming to cure cholera
- Contagionist Theory
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