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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4322354, member: 57463"]Dont' forget John Leonard Riddell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Riddell rejected the “miasma” theory of disease, the claim that unhealthy vapors cause sickness; and believed firmly that diseases are caused by “animiculae” or “germs.” (Although microscopic “animiculae” were known from 1670, they were thought to be a consequence of the illness. Most people, including doctors, believed that sickness is caused by a miasma, hence "malaria" or "bad air.") In arguing for this theory, he engaged every tool and trick known to rhetoric and debate.</p><p><br /></p><p>His talk in Cincinnati was delivered in <b>1836.</b> (Pasteur was born in 1822.) Similarly, he served on the Sanitary Commission in New Orleans in<b> 1853 </b>when they were struck by yellow fever. People tried to fight the plague by firing cannons into the air and lighting asphalt fires to fight the "miasma." Riddell kept pressing for the germ theory of disease. He also invented the binocular microscope.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 4322354, member: 57463"]Dont' forget John Leonard Riddell. Riddell rejected the “miasma” theory of disease, the claim that unhealthy vapors cause sickness; and believed firmly that diseases are caused by “animiculae” or “germs.” (Although microscopic “animiculae” were known from 1670, they were thought to be a consequence of the illness. Most people, including doctors, believed that sickness is caused by a miasma, hence "malaria" or "bad air.") In arguing for this theory, he engaged every tool and trick known to rhetoric and debate. His talk in Cincinnati was delivered in [B]1836.[/B] (Pasteur was born in 1822.) Similarly, he served on the Sanitary Commission in New Orleans in[B] 1853 [/B]when they were struck by yellow fever. People tried to fight the plague by firing cannons into the air and lighting asphalt fires to fight the "miasma." Riddell kept pressing for the germ theory of disease. He also invented the binocular microscope.[/QUOTE]
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