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What's considered hygienic can change quite a bit over time. The ancient Romans cleaned themselves with oil and a big hook, ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. Joseph Lister was able to make a much more ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease. However, the production of better quality ...

The Germ Theory of Medicine is less than 100 years old, and before this shift in thinking on disease, past humans developed some very interesting ideas around medicine. Interestingly, some of them ...