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19th Century Medicine (Louis Pasteur (discovered that germs caused disease…
19th Century Medicine
Louis Pasteur
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discovery was the pasteurisation of milk, which prevented it from going sour by killing the germs and sealing it from the air.
showed that fermentation and the growth of micro-organisms in nutrient broths did not proceed by spontaneous generation
The growth of immense wealth, based on trade and industry which created the money to spend on medical research and public health.
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Robert Koch
Discovered how to stain and grow bacteria in a Petri dish. He was thus able to find which bacteria caused which diseases.
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Koch's postulates were developed in the 19th century as general guidelines to identify pathogens that could be isolated with the techniques of the day
The postulates
-The micro-organisms must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms.
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-The microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.
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