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This 4 page paper looks at the developments in medicine to come about during this period of time. The importance of germ theory is highlighted. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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in place. Medicine was something important for centuries, but it was not until this time that significant developments would take place. Primarily, people were taken care of in their own
homes ("Exploring Illness," 2008). Medicine was considered holistically, and not focused on specific body parts for example ("Exploring Illness," 2008). Things changed radically with the advent of modern society. There
had been a rise in terms of vocation as the industrial revolution would change things immensely. Cities would grow, and with people in closer quarters, disease would spread. At the
time, both men and women would attend medical school but most would come from middle and upper class backgrounds (Wells, 2001). Similar to todays situation, medicine had been aligned with
legal and economic issues. Still, the practice of medicine had been taken seriously and experimentation would lead to changes in how medicine was practiced. There had been many medical
advances during this time period and perhaps the most significant one of all is related to the advent of germ theory by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch ("The Quickening Pace
of Technological Change (c.1850-1900)," 2008). Germ theory would change things in many ways ("The Quickening Pace of Technological Change (c.1850-1900)," 2008). One thing that it did was that it would
give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses ("The Quickening Pace of Technological Change (c.1850-1900)," 2008). Also as a result of
germ theory, the creation of vaccines and cures for certain disease came about ("The Quickening Pace of Technological Change (c.1850-1900)," 2008). Some of the diseases that were prevalent at the
time were cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, diphtheria, and bubonic plague ("The Quickening Pace of Technological Change (c.1850-1900)," 2008). The knowledge that there were germs around did something else
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