1. This validates the germ theory of disease.

2. We've got, roughly, germ theory and we've got demon theory.

3. Little real understanding of the germ theory can be ascribed to surgeons.

4. They sensed that the germ theory provided a gilt-edged opportunity to amass a huge fortune.

5. But the germ theory of disease was not proved until the late 1800's.

6. The germ theory slowly triumphed — but until the development of sulfa and antibiotics(Sentencedict), almost the only way to fight microbes was by washing them off.

7. I personally question the whole germ theory myself, as does Stanley Burroughs in his book the Master Cleanser .

8. Even before the establishment of the Germ theory of disease, traditional practices eschewed water in favor of beer, wine and tea.

9. "Teaching germ theory is as important as providing hardware," he said.

10. You wouldn't say Francis Collins is free to deny the germ theory of disease. You're recommending he practises his science in a walled garden.

11. Still, despite being highly controversial in the late 1800s, the Germ Theory was quickly adopted by the medical powers of the day.

12. In these quarters, one sensed that organic foods were a sort of talisman, sufficiently potent in their very presence to repeal the germ theory of disease.

13. The fact of the matter is, demon theory doesn't do a very good job of explaining disease, while germ theory does do a good job.

14. Government inquiries into the disease and possible policy approaches elicit testimony which illustrates in some depth contemporary views regarding epidemiology and the germ theory of disease.

15. The first is propositional knowledge about natural phenomena and their regularities, e. g. , the law of gravity and the germ theory of disease.

16. This is a serious indictment of pharmaceutical medicine which is inextricably based on Pasteur's germ theory.