Basically it is still the case that it is the "miasma theory" paradigm that led to the revolution in sanitation and nutrition (and thus increased lifespan and health) and not the late-coming allopathic / germ theory paradigm. Wikipedia says:
The miasma theory was consistent with the observation that disease was associated with poor sanitation, and hence foul odours, and that sanitary improvements reduced disease. However, it was inconsistent with the findings arising from microbiology and bacteriology in the later 19th century, which eventually led to the adoption of the germ theory of disease, although consensus was not reached immediately.
However we now know that these findings arising from microbiology and bacteriology in the later 19th century are fraught with assumption, and their success has been due to politics and ignorance of the totality of available facts and data - in particular I'm talking about Antoine Bechamp's work, and much later Harold Hillman's declaration that electron microscopy, along with other standard microbiological techniques, is misleading and unsuitable for microbiology - Cell Biology is in Dire straits - 2011
Basically it is still the case that it is the "miasma theory" paradigm that led to the revolution in sanitation and nutrition (and thus increased lifespan and health) and not the late-coming allopathic / germ theory paradigm. Wikipedia says:
However we now know that these findings arising from microbiology and bacteriology in the later 19th century are fraught with assumption, and their success has been due to politics and ignorance of the totality of available facts and data - in particular I'm talking about Antoine Bechamp's work, and much later Harold Hillman's declaration that electron microscopy, along with other standard microbiological techniques, is misleading and unsuitable for microbiology - Cell Biology is in Dire straits - 2011