Stories
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The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
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Illness and the influence of the stars
Could alien germs from space have caused major pandemics across the world? Taras Young investigates the ideas of a few unconventional scientists who believe this to be the case.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
Catalogue
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Germ theory : practical implications for medicine in Victoria / Gregory Tunchon.
Tunchon, Gregory.Date: 1985- Books
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The Germ-plasm : a theory of heredity / by August Weismann ; translated by W. Newton Parker and Harriet Ronnfeldt.
Weismann, August, 1834-1914.Date: 1893- Books
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The germ theory applied to the explanation of the phenomena of disease : the specific fevers / by T. Maclagan.
Maclagan, T. J. (Thomas John), 1838-1903.Date: 1876- Books
Practising on principle : Joseph Lister and the germ theories of disease / Christopher Lawrence and Richard Dixey.
Lawrence, Christopher, 1947-Date: 1992- Books
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The germ theory again.
Date: 1877