Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Robert Koch
and Louis
Pasteur
- Robert Koch -
German Doctor
- More credibility
than Pasteur
- Built on
theories of
Pasteur
- Applied them to
human diseases
- Found a way of
staining and growing
anthrax germs
- Petri Dish
- Proved that they
caused disease
using mice
- Proved that germs
cause disease in
humans and animals
- Won Nobel
Prize in 1905
- Also identified
the germs
causing TB and
cholera
- TB - 1882
- Cholera - 1883
- More precise
than Pasteur
- Used new technologies to
help him (microscope -
received in 1871)
- Born in
Germany,
1843
- His success spurred on Louis
Pasteur and they developed a rivalry
- Inspired new
generation of scientists
to continue identifying
germs and creating
vaccines
- Rivalry partly due to war that
France lost to Germany (1870-1)
- Advancements were faster as
the governments gave the men
money to beat the other
country to the discovery
- Koch got funding first
and his own team
- French retaliated and gave
Pasteur funding to keep up
- Preventatives greatly
improved but not treatments
- Louis Pasteur -
French Chemist
- Born in France, 1822
- Disproved theories of
miasma and spontaneous
generation
- Miasma - Bad air or infectious
mist that infected people with
disease (carried by wind)
- Spontaneous Generation -
belief that germs appeared
because someone was ill, that
being ill was the cause
- Germ Theory
- Approached by
wine producer (1857)
- Why is beetroot alcohol going sour?
- Pasteur concluded
that it was germs
- Killed bacteria by
gently heating liquid
- Worked with
beer and milk
- Pasteurisation
- Convinced germs
came from the air
- Germs can't infect what
they can't reach so
spontaneous generation
was incorrect
- Published Germ Theory in 1861
- Only about liquids
- French silk
industry being
ruined by disease
- Pasteur proved that a
germ was causing the
disease, pébrine
through a series of
experiments
- Lacked credibility
- No one believed
that something as
small as a germ
could affect
something as large
as a human
- Experiments
were limited
- Vaccines
- Discovered how they actually work and
could be developed for different diseases
- Began with chicken cholera
- Chicken mistakenly
injected with old
germs and became
resistant
- Edward Jenner had discovered
about small pox and cow pox
- Was thought to
be a
coincidence
- Used a vaccine for
sheep anthrax to
prove to everyone
- Created rabies vaccine which was a
major breakthrough that people from
all over Europe came for
- Gained credibility