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(redirected from germ theory)

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Against this view, Meyer and Cotton posed a novel paradigm based on the germ theory of disease and the new sciences of bacteriology and virology.
Germ theory is not the entire story, but do wash your hands often when out in public.
Her dissertation, Americans and the Germ Theory of Disease (1949), has received appreciative attention recently as scholars revisit the reasons why the American medical establishment clung so tightly to the miasma theories of disease long after they had been rejected on the Continent (Tomes, 1997).
 
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