Medicine - Causes of disease since 1900

Understanding Microbes

• Throughout C20th scientists built upon the research and findings of earlier years.
• Techniques by Pasteur and Koch - used to find microbes that caused diseases
• Vaccines were created to stop people catching those specific diseases
• Knowledge of how microbes cause disease improved - cures; "magic bullets"

Development of Vaccinations

• 1906 - Tuberculosis (TB)
• 1913 - Diphtheria
• 1927 - Tetanus
• 1952 - Whooping Cough
• 1954 - Polio
• 1964 - Measles
• 1988 - MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)

Understanding genetics

• C19th - Mendel…