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 …

In no department of medicine is there a greater separation between our present knowledge
and the views of our ancestors, than in Etiology. In most other branches of medical science …

In the latter 19th century, the explosive growth of bacteriology transformed both the theory
and the practice of medicine. This success, of course, depended on the advances made in …

IN considering the work of Bradley, Marten and Goiffon, it is important to keep in mind the
views held by their contemporaries about creatures that cannot be seen with the unaided …

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 …

From the time of Hippocrates to that of Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on
plausible but almost wholly mistaken ideas about the causes of and best treatments for …

BY THE BEGINNING of the twentieth century, many diseases could be causally explained by
the germ theory. However, other important diseases defied every attempted explanation …

THE rapid progress of discovery in the last few years has created a very general interest in
bacteria. Few people who read could be found to-day who have not some little idea of these …

The concept of disease and germs can be dfificult for Christians to understand in a
creationist worldview. The author sheds light on the origin of germs and how they fit into a …

There has recently appeared in the United States and elsewhere a group of young scholars
who call themselves" radical historians". This group carries to extremes the critical attitude …