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How did ideas about the cause of disease change between 1700-1900?

A study of the Germ Theory and the work of Pasteur and Koch in changing the understanding about the causes of disease.

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How did ideas about the cause of disease change between 1700-1900?

End of lesson quiz for Lesson 10 - Medicine Through Time

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Q1.What new theory came about in the early 1700s?

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Q2.How did Pasteur prove that microbes were in the air?

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Q3.When was the Germ Theory first published?

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Q4.When was Koch first able to isolate a disease causing microbe?

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Q5.How did Koch make it easier to study microbes?

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How did ideas about the cause of disease change between 1700-1900?

End of lesson quiz for Lesson 10 - Medicine Through Time

Question 1

Question 2

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Question 5

Q1.What new theory came about in the early 1700s?

1/5

Q2.How did Pasteur prove that microbes were in the air?

2/5

Q3.When was the Germ Theory first published?

3/5

Q4.When was Koch first able to isolate a disease causing microbe?

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Q5.How did Koch make it easier to study microbes?

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