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In the 17th and 18th centuries what did most people believe caused diseases?
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In the 17th and 18th Centuries it was believed that diseases were caused bad air known as miasma. It was thought to contain poisonous decomposed matter.
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How did people believe diseases were spreading during Elizabethan times?
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