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Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
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louis pasteur
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changes in medicine 1845-1945
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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
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