If the germ theory is relatively new, how do they think fermentation was happening (like wine, ale, yogurt etc.) thousands of years ago?

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If the germ theory is relatively new, how do they think fermentation was happening (like wine, ale, yogurt etc.) thousands of years ago?

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Answer 1

The description of how “minute bodies” enter the body and cause diseases by Ibn
Khatima were well in advance of Pasteur’s discovery of microbes.