Pathology. General pathology. Volume I

The Enlightenment and the Baroque after the revival of the empirical method in the new centers of scholarship. By the 17th century, the study of microscopy was well under way, and the study of tissue led British Royal Society member Robert Hooke to coin the word "cell", setting the stage for later germ theory. The advent of the microscope was one of the greatest developments in the history of pathology.

The modern one pathology began to develop as a separate field in the 19th century through natural philosophers and physicians studying disease and the informal study of what they called “pathological anatomy” or “disease anatomy. However, pathology as a formal field of specialty was not fully developed until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the advent of the detailed study of microbiology. In the 19th century, physicians began to understand that disease-causing pathogens or "germs" existed and were capable of reproduction and reproduction, replacing earlier beliefs in humoral or even spiritual agents that had dominated much of the previous 1,500 years in European medicine.