—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the study of microorganisms was transformed into a key discipline for the control and eradication of infectious diseases.— Ideas about the etiology of infectious diseases changed with the evolution of...
—How we learned to take aim in a chemical sense in the history of medicine.— The discovery that specific microorganisms were responsible for infectious diseases led to the search for therapeutic substances to eliminate them. Serotherapy was used, by...
—A biography to reflect in the importance of hygiene for health.— Until the mid-nineteenth century, one of the main complications after childbirth was called postpartum sepsis or postpartum infection. Once the placenta is detached, the vessels in...
—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the bacteriological laboratory was transformed into a new setting for diagnosing, preventing and treating infectious diseases.— The verification that microscopic living things were the origin of...
—Injuries, functional disorders and the study of other causes of illness were at the centre of the medical revolution of the nineteenth century.— Disease has always been present in human life. The way in which it has been understood, however, has...
—The material culture of science was substantially transformed in the nineteenth century, a process in which the new instrument production industry played a key role.— The material culture of science, in particular scientific instruments, underwent...
