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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/23/2006 : 00:04:59 [Permalink]
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B. patiently explained: quote:
Also, you don't have to know the germ theory to know things were contagious. Look at all the leper stuff in the Bible. They had to have known that was contagious. At the same time, people got it wrong about leprosy until modern times. It's one of the least transmissible of all contagious diseases. You typically have to be exposed over a long period of time to get it. Leper colonies prevented very little disease.
Yes, I guess I do tend to forget that germ theory isn't exactly the same as a theory of contagion. The Law of Contagion (along with the Law of Similarity) was certainly a theory of magic from most ancient times, and may even have gotten into magic itself from observations of diseases spreading.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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