Miasma Theory vs. Contagion Theory

Join Sutliff Museum Assistant, Beverly as we take a journey through the history of how diseases spread from person to person. Different ideas were thought to be correct for long stretches of time, regardless of how hard to believe they may seem to us today. The Victorian era, however, was a period of major findings, innovations, and discoveries, especially in medicine, so these things happening close together led to major changes very quickly at some points.
This feature video is apart of our "A Million Ways to Die in the 19th Century" digital exhibit. For more information on this exhibit, please visit www.sutliffmuseum.org/current-exhibits
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[@scaper8]

Thank you for this. I've been running across "the contagion theory of disease" on and off recently. I've heard, obviously, of the humors, miasma, and germ theories, but not the contagion theory.
From context I could get that it certainly wasn't modern germ theory, but I wasn't quite getting how it differed. This video also helped show how both miasma and contagion theories informed germ theory. (Clearly "bad air" and "bad surfaces" both contribute to the movement of different diseases based on how the germs move.)
Given all that, I'd say that your last slide is slightly incorrect. Rather from miasma then contagion then germ. I'd say it's more miasma to contagion, then contagion, with bits of miasma, to germ.

[@YouTubeCensor]

"We now understand how diseases spread." "Previous theories have since been proven incorrect." 🤔

[@adiii5679]

thanxs for such a nice video a combination of contribution of dif scientists 😊👍

[@--andy-]

Proper sanitation, good hygiene, diet and exercise, sleep hygiene and sun seem to play the largest roll overall in human health. Germ theory largely is a scare tactic by those looking to profit.