Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
The 19th-century theory that disease was caused by bad air or decaying matter, which became obsolete after Germ Theory.
Miasma appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Approaches to Prevention and Treatment.
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Case Studies: William Harvey and the Great Plague
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Case Study: The Black Death
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain • Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
The Medical Renaissance in England • Case Studies: William Harvey and the Great Plague
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Ideas About the Cause of Disease