Modern medicine is often said to have originated with nineteenth century germ theory, which
attributed diseases to bacterial contagions. The success of this theory is often associated …

Over the past two centuries, diseases have been separated into three categories: infectious
diseases, genetic diseases, and diseases caused by too much or too little of some …

THE rapid development of the germ theory in the mid-nine teenth century, combining as it
did work in several different lines, met with opposition from many quarters. Some of the op …

Infectious diseases are often said to have a universal etiology, while chronic and
noncommunicable diseases are said to be multifactorial in their etiology. It has been argued …

The germ theory of disease has a quality of obviousness and lucidi ty which makes it equally
satis fying to a schoolboy and to a trained physician. A virulent microbe reaches a …

A historical review of the evolution of concepts, postulates and guidelines concerning
disease causation from early germ theory to current work in the area of chronic …

Nineteenth-century medical advances were entwined with a conceptual innovation: the idea
that many cases of disease which were previously thought to have diverse causes could be …

Debates over germs in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came from a multiplicity
of scientific and medical practices. This chapter unpacks this transition in three sections. The …

" To name is to know', the old adage has it.'A disease known is half cured', runs the proverb.
Put these two together and nosology, the branch of medicine concerned with the …

The delivery of treatments for diseases has always been the central mission of medicine as
the delivery of preventative or control measures has always been the mission of public …