germ theory in Podcasts
conceptA scientific process of understanding disease causation through microorganisms, developed in the late 19th century.
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The germ theory of disease – the understanding that specific microorganisms cause specific illnesses – was being developed in this period by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, but it hadn't yet displaced the older frameworks that physicians like Hall had.