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as the source of knowledge,
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and we'll talk about the coming of laboratory
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medicine and experimental medicine as a paradigm shift.
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But all of that would not have been possible,
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and we wouldn't have the coming of the germ theory of disease,
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if it hadn't been for the idea of specificity and classification
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that were developed in Paris between 1794
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and the middle of the nineteenth century.
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And next time we'll turn to another epidemic disease
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and this is a timely one as we're moving
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into the nineteenthcentury
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and that is Asiatic cholera.