Question

The germ theory of disease was created by
A. Devalue
B. Pasteur
C. Rayer
D. None of the above

Answer 1

The germ theory of disease stated that disease is generally caused by the microorganisms which invade the host cell machinery and disturbs the metabolism and causes the diseases. These microorganisms cannot be seen without magnification

Complete answer:
1. Public health evolved through trial and error and with expanding scientific medical knowledge, at times controversial, often stimulated by war and natural disasters.
2. The need for organized health protection grew as part of the development of community life, and in particular, urbanization and social reforms.
3. Religious and societal beliefs influenced approaches to explaining and attempting to control communicable diseases by sanitation, town planning, and provision of medical care.
4. Religions and social systems have also viewed scientific investigation and the spread of knowledge as threatening, resulting in inhibition of developments in public health, with modern examples of opposition to birth control, immunization, and food fortification.
5. The evolution of public health is a continuing process; pathogens change, as do the environment and the host.
6. In order to face the challenges ahead, it is important to have an understanding of the past. Although there is much in this age that is new, many of the current debates and arguments in public health are echoes of the past.
7. Experience from the past is a vital tool in the formulation of health policy. An understanding of the evolution and context of those challenges and innovative ideas can help us to navigate the public health world of today and the future.
8. Pasteur moved on to studying solid compounds through experimental trials, demonstrating that microbes were the reason behind the decay of meat. He was confident that this concept explained the development of the disease, arguing that the multiplication of germs leads to a specific disease.
9. This was a very significant realization, as it meant that microbes not only affected beer, milk, and various foods but had the potential to affect humans as well.
10. Health reformers brought the lessons of germ theory to the public, teaching people how to organize their homes and lives in accordance with modern sanitary practices.
11. Germ theory had important implications for the way in which people cleaned their homes, selected foods, prepared their meals, and even influenced the length of women’s skirts.
12. Although the modern germ theory of disease has eclipsed its predecessors, the atmospheric-miasmatic theory of disease was generally more influential until the late-nineteenth century, when the relationship between microbes and disease was finally demonstrated and confirmed.

So, the correct answer is “Option B Pasteur ”.

Note: The more we know of minute organisms the more propagation is found to resemble higher plants and animals. Their species breed true as those of sheep or cattle. Their form may vary in different parts of their life cycle, but we often meet with profound changes of form in the life history of highly organized creatures. So far as our experience goes it corroborates the truth of the dictum, Omne vivum e vivo—all life from antecedent life.