THE CAUSATION OF DISEASE.

The Causation of Disease

Causation and disease: effect of technology on postulates of causation.

This paper reviews the technical developments in microbiology that led to the discovery of new infectious agents and the effect of these discoveries on establishing proof of causation. In bacteriology, these advances included the light microscope, bacterial stains, bacterial cultures, and the methods used to isolate clones. In virology, they involved the use of filters to separate viruses from ...

the role of adverse lifestyle changes in the causation of coronary artery disease

adverse lifestyle changes like rapid change in dietary habits coupled with decreased physical activity and increasing rates of alcohol and tobacco consumption can increase coronary artery disease risk factors and its mortality even higher than the rates predicted. to evaluate the role of adverse lifestyle changes factors in the causation of cad, a hospital based case-control study was conducted...

The Rôle of Modern Dietetics in the Causation of Disease

they are digested with difficulty. Excessive quantities of nutriment at frequent intervals are taken into the stomach with the aid of condiments in consequence of this craze for concentrated foods. There is a tendency to feed healthy children and adults on the predigested foods devised for diseased states, and to diet men on the genito-urinary products of the lower animals, such as eggs and mil...

Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective.

Over the past two centuries, diseases have been separated into three categories: infectious diseases, genetic diseases, and diseases caused by too much or too little of some noninfectious environmental constituent. At the end of the 19th century, the most rapid development was in the first of these categories; within three decades after the first cause-effect linkage of a bacterium to a disease...