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Early doctors believed in the theory of spontaneous generation, the idea that living organisms could arise from non-living matter. They thought that germs appeared as a result of decaying organic material or were spontaneously generated in stagnant water or other environments. This theory was eventually discredited by the work of Louis Pasteur and other scientists in the mid-19th century.

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