Who were the key people in the fight against disease in the 19th century?
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- Who were the key people in the fight against disease in the 19th century?
- Louis Pasteur
- Germs make liquids go bad
- Pasteur was asked to find out what was making beer go sour. Through experiments he discovered that beer went sour when it had germs in it
- Germs in liquids can be killed by heat
- Pasteur boiled liquids which had germs in them and then studied them under a microscope to show that all of them had disappeared
- Germs are in the air all around us
- Pasteur carried out different experiments to prove that germs were in the air
- Germs cause disease in animals
- Pasteur was asked by the silk industry to find out what was killing the silkworms. He proved that it was a germ
- Developed a range of vaccines to prevent disease
- In the 1880's Pasteur discovered how vaccinations worked. He made vaccinations for chicken cholera, anthrax and rabies
- Germs make liquids go bad
- Robert Koch
- Developed a technique for identifying specific bacteria which caused disease
- Koch developed a method for extracting individual germs from a group of bacteria. He could then inject mice to see which caused the disease.
- Found germs causing anthrax, blood poisoning and tuberculosis
- Developed a technique for finding germs which are invisible to the human eye
- Koch used industrial dyes to stain bacteria
- It allowed experiments to be carried out on more specific germs
- Developed a technique for identifying specific bacteria which caused disease
- Edward Jenner
- The cowpox bacterium can be used as a vaccine for smallpox
- Jenner proved that injecting someone with cowpox could prevent smallpox
- The cowpox bacterium can be used as a vaccine for smallpox
- Louis Pasteur
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