Louis Pasteur - 18th and 19th Century Medicine
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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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