History Paper

You have until Monday 11-21-17 9pm Eastern to complete this paper!! Complete the reading for Topic 6 and answer the following question in 1-2 pages, double-spaced: It wasn't until the nineteenth century that the true cause of disease, the germ theory, was discovered. Trace some of the preliminary steps leading to this discovery taken in the 16th to the early 19th centuries. Be sure to include Pasteur's work. (Hint-though seemingly wedded to the humoral theory, physicians such as Fracastorius and onward began to guess at the existence of hidden or invisible "seeds" as the cause of illness while Leuwenhoek's microscope enabled researchers to actually see germs).