Miasma Theory vs. Contagion Theory

Join Sutliff Museum Assistant, Beverly as we take a journey through the history of how diseases spread from person to person. Different ideas were thought to be correct for long stretches of time, regardless of how hard to believe they may seem to us today. The Victorian era, however, was a period of major findings, innovations, and discoveries, especially in medicine, so these things happening close together led to major changes very quickly at some points.

This feature video is apart of our "A Million Ways to Die in the 19th Century" digital exhibit. For more information on this exhibit, please visit www.sutliffmuseum.org/current-exhibits

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Theme Music: "Baroque Letter" by Aaron Kenny (@contactkennya)