Mbi 131 exam 2 strautman Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

miasmas Answer "bad air or vapors" that people originally thought caused contagious disease Germ theory of Disease Answer Evidence starts to build that microbes, rather than sin or miasmas, cause contagious diseases Ignaz Semmelweis (1840's) Answer -Suspected that doctors were transmitting childbed fever to women during childbirth -Required hand washing in chlorine solution -Incidence of childbed fever dropped from 50% to 1% -Was not believed and was ridiculed by other doctors Joh...

miasmas - "bad air or vapors" that people originally thought caused contagious disease Germ theory of Disease - Evidence starts to build that microbes, rather than sin or miasmas, cause contagious diseases Ignaz Semmelweis (1840's) - -Suspected that doctors were transmitting childbed fever to women during childbirth -Required hand washing in chlorine solution -Incidence of childbed fever dropped from 50% to 1% -Was not believed and was ridiculed by other doctors John Snow (1850's) - ...