Research pointed to the origin of the disease as being infective rather than toxic, but no definite cause was discovered.
On the one hand, it is connected to the arts and sciences: all wondrous inventions appear at first to be the result of magical operations, until their true causes are discovered.
No physical causes were discovered and all improved over time.
Yaffe said he was even seeing companies explore the idea of whether "claw backs" might be used to get executives to pay back bonuses if misconduct that causes reputation harm is discovered later.
1984 Retrovirus is discovered as cause of Aids and later named human immunodeficiency virus or HIV.
Gastroenterologists now recognize that I.B.S. is a real physiological, or "functional," disorder, though no specific cause has been discovered.
The bacteria's life history -- and the etiology of the disease they cause -- were discovered in the mid-19th century by Robert Koch, a German bacteriologist who was a developer of the germ theory of disease.
Even when a specific cause cannot be discovered, therapy with corticosteroids is usually successful in controlling the worst ravages of the inflammation.
As with many other leading causes of death that we don't fully understand (including cancer and Alzheimer's ), many of us want "the cause" to be discovered so we can devise a treatment.
