1800-1900's medicine
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- Created on: 12-12-13 19:25
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- 1800-1900's
- Louis Pasteur
- Published germ theory in 1861
- Carried out experiments to show bacteria makes milk go off. People weren't convinced until 1864
- In 1800's discovered how vaccinations worked... developed vaccines for chicken cholera and anthrax
- Edward Jenner in 1798 proved vaccinations prevented people catching small pox, however didn't understand why
- Published germ theory in 1861
- Robert Koch
- Developed methods that helped scientists identify what bacteria caused different diseases
- Descovered the disease that casue tubercolisis
- Paul Ehrlich
- In 1901he developed a chemical cure('magic bullet') which destroyed the bacteria that casued syphillis
- Flemming, Florey and Chain
- Develeoped the fist antibiotic, penicillin
- In 1928 Alexander Flemming made the discovery
- Florey and Chain developed the idea into a medical treatment
- Louis Pasteur
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