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  • Thumbnail for Miasma theory
    through medieval Italian. Miasma was considered to be a poisonous vapor or mist filled with particles from decomposed matter (miasmata) that caused illnesses...
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  • Thumbnail for Germ theory of disease
    1762. However, such views were held in disdain in Europe, where Galen's miasma theory remained dominant among scientists and doctors. By the early 19th...
    36 KB (4,159 words) - 21:35, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
    accepted until decades later. Miasma theorists concluded that cholera was caused by particles in the air, or "miasmata", which arose from decomposing...
    34 KB (4,280 words) - 17:37, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
    credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He...
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  • Thumbnail for Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century
    the source of cholera, rather than particles in the air (referred to as "miasmata"). His study proved contaminated water was the main agent spreading cholera...
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