History of Hygiene Timeline
Sep 01, 2015 · The History Learning Site, 1 Sep 2015. 26 Jun 2021. The word hygiene comes from Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, who was the daughter of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. Since the arrival of the Industrial Revolution () and the discovery of the germ theory of disease in the second half of the nineteenth century, hygiene and ...