What caused disease - 1800
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- What caused disease - 1800
- Miasma
- Dirt was smelly - so thought the smelly air spread disease
- Became a very popular reasoning as later towns grew dirtier
- Later, Germ theory
- Why was the cause of disease discovered late C19th
- Improved technology
- Government funding
- Communication
- Factors that helped Koch and Pasteur
- Research teams
- Rivalry
- Why was the cause of disease discovered late C19th
- Miasma
- Spontaneous generation
- Organisms were seen under microscopes
- Rotting food
- What caused disease - 1800
- Miasma
- Dirt was smelly - so thought the smelly air spread disease
- Became a very popular reasoning as later towns grew dirtier
- Later, Germ theory
- Why was the cause of disease discovered late C19th
- Improved technology
- Government funding
- Communication
- Factors that helped Koch and Pasteur
- Research teams
- Rivalry
- Why was the cause of disease discovered late C19th
- Miasma
- Thought organisms were made through decay (automatically)
- Organisms were seen under microscopes
- Development of microscope
- Anthony van Leeuwenhoek - 1600s, 300x magnification
- Joseph Lister - 1800s, 1000x magnification
- Scientists observed organisms but found no link
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