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Germ theory   /dʒərm θˈɪri/   Listen
Germ theory

noun
1.
(medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms.





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... has occurred in practical surgery since the discovery of the relation of micro-organisms to the complications occurring in wounds has caused me to select this subject for discussion. Although many of my hearers are familiar with the germ theory of disease, it is possible that it may interest some of them to have put before them in a short address a few points in bacteriology which are of value ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various


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