1857 - Employed to find the explanation
for the souring of sugar beet used in alcohol
industry.
He blamed germs.
He proved they were in the air by
sterilising some water and keeping it
in two flasks. One was closed and
stayed sterile. The other bred
micro-organisms.
Chicken Cholera Vaccine
He heard about
Koch's good work
and came out of
retirement in 1877.
This caused many other
scientists to join the new
field of bacteriology.
Both he and Koch worked with large
teams in the France/Germany
competition for national prestige.
Charles Chamberland was in Pasteur's team.
He was told to inject chickens with chicken cholera but he forgot as he went on holiday.
He left the cholera culter on his desk and injected it into the chickens when he returned.
They survived and they tried again and they survived again.
They realised that it was because it was
weakened by being left and it made the
chicken's immune like Jenner's cowpox had.
Rabies
Rabbit spines dried and tested on a dying boy. He lived.
Found cure for anthrax in sheep.
1881 - Demonstrated in public.
Science
18th Century - Micro-organisms had been seen through microscopes
Scientists thought they were caused by disease.
Spontaneous Generation
They thought that it was a random thing or
that it came from gases in the air called
miasmas
Robert Koch
Linked diseases to the microbe that caused them.
He developed a solid
medium to frow cultures
and practise dye techniques
in to colour microbes.
He experimented on
his daughter's mice.
1875 - Identified anthrax
spores and the bacteria that
causes septicaemia,
tuberculosis - 1882 and
cholera - 1883.
Edwin Kleb
Diphtheria Germs
Others proved an antitoxin could cancel out
toxinx produced by germs.