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The Popperian Podcast #25 – Donald Gillies – ‘The Philosophy of Medical Discovery’

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The Revolution in Medicine

Before 1860, diseases were explained in terms of either miasmas or contagion. The first really serious formulation occurs in 1865 when the germ theory starts getting formulated and begins to take off. So I think that's definitely a revolution in medicine. Right?

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