Pasteur & Germ Theory 1861
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- Pasteur & Germ Theory 1861
- initial beliefs
- Spontaneous generation
- microorganisms only appear at the site of a decay
- miasma caused diease
- Spontaneous generation
- Discovery
- Pasteur was investigating why beer was going off so fast
- challenged spontaneous generation
- believe the microbes were causing the decay
- believed they had fallen from the air into fermentation tanks
- believe the microbes were causing the decay
- Looked under microscope to find microbes rapidly multiplying
- Called them germs (germinating)
- challenged spontaneous generation
- Pasteur was investigating why beer was going off so fast
- Theory
- Air full of microbes
- More microbes in some areas than in others
- Microbes can decay
- microbes can be killed by heating
- Pasteurisation
- microbes were found to be killing silkworms
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