Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.
The incorrect, dominant medical belief before Germ Theory that diseases like cholera were caused and spread by inhaling foul-smelling, bad air from rotting matter.
Miasma theory appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Medicine in Britain and the Western Front, especially Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain and Case Studies: Vaccinations and Cholera.
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain • Case Studies: Vaccinations and Cholera
Medicine in Britain and the Western Front
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain • Ideas About the Cause of Disease
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