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and without the idea of localism; that is, lesions.
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And also essential was the new development
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of pathological anatomy,
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derived from the post-mortem in the Paris hospitals.
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The idea of specificity was critical.
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Any further progress to the idea of a microbial disease
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depended on the view that diseases didn't transform
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from one into another.
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Before the Paris School, it was common to believe,
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for example, that cholera-- to take one disease--
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was simply a heightened form of endemic summer diarrhea.
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It wasn't a specific disease,