Masters of Health Magazine October 2022 | Page 10

In 1895, during the Second Industrial Revolution, life expectancy was 46.3 years for women and 48.3 years for men. The concept of public health in the US had just come into being in the 1870s and 1880s. It was industrialization and rapid population growth in the big cities of the East coast that made public health a topic of concern.

During this time, many important steps were made in the field of public health. Among them: French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur had introduced the germ theory of diseases; German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch formulated his postulates on modern bacteriology;

and Claude Bernard began and Antoine Bechamp expanded upon terrain theory, which states that a healthy internal environment can innately handle the various pathogenic microorganisms that come its way.

The Chiropractic Journey -

From Persecuted

to Essential

by Dr. Eric Plasker, DC

Prof. David J. Pesek, Ph.D., D.H.C.

Claude Bernard

Robert Koch

Antoine Bechamp