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| Developed by English surgeon Joseph Lister, it was the idea that a chemical disinfectant applied to a wound dressing would destroy aerial bacteria. |
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| Follower of radical philosopher Jeremy Benthamite who taught that public problems should be dealt with on a rational, scientific basis. |
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| Freud's postulation that much of human behavior is motivated by unconsious emotional needs whose nature and origins are kept from consious awareness by various mental devices. |
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| The idea, applied by thinkers in many fields, that stresses gradual change and continuous adjustment. |
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| The idea, contrary to miasmatic theory, that disease was spread through filth and not caused by it. |
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| Period between 1750 and 1850 marked by a high number of illegitimate births. |
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| Highly skilled workers who made up about 15% of the working classes at the turn of the 20th century. |
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| The belief that people contract disease when they breathe the bad odors of decay and putrefying excrement. |
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| The study of compounds of carbon. |
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| Process developed by Louis Pasteur that suppressed the activity of living organisms in a beverage by heating it. |
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| Auguste Compte's discipline of sociology, which postulated that "each branch of our knowledge passes successively through three different theoretical conditions. |
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| Literary movement which stressed that literature should depict life exactly as it was. |
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| A rigid gender division of labor with the wife as mother and homemaker and the husband as wage earner. |
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| People that essentially believe in evolution. |
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| A branch of physics built on Newton's laws of mechanics that investigated the relationship between heat and mechanical energy. |
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