Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Pasteur
This page presents the text of Louis Pasteur's "Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery" (1878). It provides information about the origin of the germ theory of disease.
University of Waterloo (Canada)
The Concept of Disease: Historical Developments
Contains information on scientific developments surrounding diseases. Includes the following sections: Hippocrates and the Humoral Theory; Fracastoro and the Contagion Theory; Pasteur, Lister, Koch and the Germ Theory; and Current...
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Hartford University: History of Epidemics and Plagues
This resource provides information on epidemics, how they occur, and how they spread.
University of Arizona
Pulse: Disease & Epidemics: Architects of History
A 10 week interdisciplinary unit plan on disease and epidemics.
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Schools History: Louis Pasteur
A brief discussion of Pasteur's theory that germs in the air were the cause of disease rather than the result of disease.