PBHL 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Demonic Possession, Humorism, Microbiological Culture
9 Mar 2016
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Strong belief that religion was tied to health. Sick people were possessed by demons sins of the souls punished. All diseases were contagious and could be transmitted by person to person. Amrauer hansen in norway found the first bad bacterium in 1873. People were made up of humoral and health was defined by proper humoral balance. 4 humors: blood, bile, yellow and black phlegm. Miasma theory- disease came from foul smelling cloud. Pasteur did formal experimental to demonstrate the relationship between germ and disease. Theory of multiple causation (epidemiological model of disease) Variety of factors must be present for disease to occur. To explain disease occurrence in both id and non id. Disease occurs when: outside agent capable of causing disease/injury meets a host that is vulnerable to the agent in an environment that allows & supports the agent host to interact.
