Louis Pasteur - 18th and 19th Century Medicine

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  • Created on: 11-10-20 14:45

Louis Pasteur - 

  • proved the idea of spontaineous generation was wrong because decay didn't happen to sterilised matter that was left undisterbed
  • theorised that, as germs were causing decay, they might also be causing disease in the human body.
  • observed one particular type of microorganism killing off France's silkworm population, which seemed to prove his theory
  • he didn't publish his 'germ theory of infection' until 1878
  • to begin with, patures work had little, to no impact on british ideas about the cause

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