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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Germ Theory"”.
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Three essays on U.S. economic history
… chapter studies whether the dissemination of germ theory--which provided new methods of controlling infectious disease, such as boiling water, washing hands, and isolating the sick--enabled households to prevent child mortality. We focus on physician households, who, as a group, should have …
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Spontaneous generation in the 1870s: Victorian scientific naturalism and its relationship to medicine.
… to spontaneous generation to his support for the germ theory which he used as a vehicle for advocating a scientific approach to medicine. The thesis concludes that Tyndall's campaign for scientific medicine was part of the scientific naturalists' campaign to spread the naturalistic world-view and …
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Unclean and Unforgivable
… established and old-school doctors consider germ theory to be too radical and detrimental to the medical field and undermine Dr. Barton and Victoria’s efforts at every turn.</p>
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A View of the Valley: The 1913 Flood in West Indianapolis
… rivers or that scientists had not yet proven the germ theory. As shown in this study, however, the historical sources support an argument that the relationship between the people and the river dictated the fate of the river and the community of West Indianapolis, which suffered significant damage …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
… quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued to recommend that tuberculosis patients …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
… quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued to recommend that tuberculosis patients …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
… of infection — contagionism, miasmatism, and the germ theory — and how Bram Stoker symbolically utilizes the theories differently in his novel to allude to the consequences on the individual and society, such as isolation and quarantine. Additionally, the paper looks at Bram Stoker’s knowledge of …
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Spatial and temporal structure of typhoid fever in Washington, D.C., 1895-1909: a geographic information systems exploration of urban health concerns
… dropped quickly. Concurrently, miasmatic theory gave way to germ theory. Many of these dynamic changes occurred in the urban centers of North America, which were also entering into a period of dramatic growth and change. Following the 1905 completion of infrastructure improvements intended …
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Monogenic Defects of the Type I Interferons Signaling Pathway in Humans: Molecular and Clinical Implications
<p>The germ theory of disease, which dictates that microorganisms colloquially referred to as "germs" can invade humans or other hosts and cause disease, has remained the dominant conceptualization of infectious disease since the late nineteenth century. Since that time, growing appreciation for …