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How did science contribute to the advancement to the causes of disease during the 19th Century?
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How did science contribute to the advancement to the causes of disease during the 19th Century? The evolving level of scientific knowledge was a major contributing factor to the advancement of causes of disease. The first step to the advancement of the causes of disease was the discovery of micro-organisms. If we go back to the late 1600's, a Dutch clockmaker by the named of Anthony van Leeuwenhoek made one of the first microscopes. His microscopes were not very clear and the image clarity was poor, but he still studied anything he could find. From his research, everything he has studied had tiny micro-organisms which at the time he called Animalcules. As a result of this, by the 1800's, purer glass was being made with greater clarification. In 1830, a British Scientist called Joseph Lister developed a microscope that could magnify up to 1000 without any distortion. With these improves microscopes,...
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