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of miasmatic theory.
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And public health, a theory--and this is perhaps
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something we ought to bear in mind--
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that a theory that is by now rejected--
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that is miasmatism, the filth theory of disease--
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did operate in such a way as to promote major
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and positive health results.
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And one of the causes of this movement was the epidemic disease
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that we dealt with the last couple of times,
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and that is Asiatic cholera.
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We might note there was a sidelight
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that may be of interest as well; that this sanitary movement,