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Ideas about the causes of diseases and illness, advancements - industrial …
Ideas about the causes of diseases and illness, advancements - industrial
Germ theory
1861, published by Louis Pasteur
Proved that germs were causing liquids ot decay, disproving spontaneous generation theory.
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Impact
British scientist, Joseph Lister read it and linked it to infection problems.
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Wasn't British, meaning governement didn't want French scientist to be well-known over theirs.
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Robert Koch and microbes
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Made it easier for other scientists to study bacteria by making a way of growing them - agar jelly in a petri dish
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British didn't believe Germ Theory, continued believe miasma