miasma theory

This public health argument for cremation faded along with the miasma theory.

John Snow was a skeptic of the then-dominant miasma theory.

Miasma theory of disease - the theory that diseases are caused by "bad air".

The theory supplanted earlier explanations for disease such as miasma theory.

Although inoculation was practiced, the miasma theory of disease was still believed.

The miasma theory was accepted from ancient times in Europe, India and China.

He refuted Galen's miasma theory (poison gas in sick people).

Pasteur's theory was in direct opposition to contemporary theories of disease, such as the miasma theory.

Smith was a close ally on public health matters with Edwin Chadwick, and like him supported the miasma theory.

William Farr, the assistant commissioner for the 1851 London census, was an important supporter of the miasma theory.

Early theories of diseases (includes miasma theory)

Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), thought infection was due to the passage of minute bodies from person to another as opposed to miasma theory.

Dr. Snow believed in the germ theory of disease as opposed to the prevailing miasma theory.

The map helped the germ theory of disease transmission supplant miasma theory as the widely accepted view.

Sewers were built since the 1850s, initially based on the erroneous belief that bad air (miasma theory) caused cholera and typhoid.

Although miasma theory correctly teaches that disease is a result of poor sanitation, it was based upon the prevailing theory of spontaneous generation.

Even though later disproven by the influence of bacteria and the discovery of viruses, the miasma theory helped make the connection between poor sanitation and disease.

All those concerns, born of the miasma theory of disease, were thus mixed with urbanistic concerns of the management of populations.

Meteoropathy is different from historical conceptions of "air" causing diseases and strongly influencing people's sense of well-being (see Miasma theory of disease).

The miasma theory believed that infectious diseases were spread by noxious gases emitted from decaying organic matter, which included decaying corpses.

In India, there was also a miasma theory and the Indians take credit for being the first to put this miasma theory into clinical practice.

In his 1850 Yellow Fever Contrasted with Bilious Fever he attacked the prevailing miasma theory.

The incorrect historical miasma theory of disease, which held that diseases are spread by foul air-in this case fouled by the stench of decomposing corpses.

The wide acceptance of miasma theory during the cholera outbreaks overshadowed the partially correct theory brought forth by John Snow that cholera was spread through water.

John Snow, who disproved the miasma theory, and Robert Koch, widely credited with the discovery of the bacillum thirty years later, were unaware of his previous work.