Fermentation theory
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The fermentation theory of disease is the (now obsolete) concept that many diseases, including the diseases which were "epidemic, endemic and contagious", owe their origin to the presence of a "morbific principle" in the system, acting in a manner analogous to, although not identical with, the process of fermentation.
It was rendered obsolete by the germ theory of disease, which led to the new science of bacteriology.
[edit] See also
- Zymotic diseases (for the Greek language term zumoun for "ferment")
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