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Origin of Antimicrobial Therapy.
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2024 April 27
Medical historians typically situate the origins of the antimicrobial era during the early germ period at the turn of the 20th century. They have regarded the development of chemical compounds designed to treat infectious diseases by killing their causative germ as the beginning of the antimicrobial era. Scholars, however, had been speculating about the causal relationship between germs and diseases for centuries beforehand. One of them also addressed the practical applications of this theory. The Italian physician Fracastoro proposed in 1546 that infectious diseases could be treated by administering substances to antagonize disease causing germs. He claimed that health could be restored to people who became ill with infections by nullifying the responsible germs at a time when investigators could not see germs or investigate their ability to cause disease. The long genealogy of antimicrobial therapy from its conception to its fruition took place over the span of several centuries.
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