1A (ROBERT KOCH 1870S) (Pasteur)

Question 1

What had changed during the 1870s regarding attitudes of the medical field?

Answer 1

Pasteur’s ideas were more accepted but had little impact on medicine (despite Lister’s work proving his ideas)

Question 2

What was the general consensus in the medical community in the 1870s?

Answer 2

The link of Lister’s and Pasteur’s work to disease was not clearly understood

Question 3

Who was Robert Koch?

Answer 3

A German scientist, who had read Pasteur’s work

Question 4

What did Robert Koch do in 1872?

Answer 4

Koch developed many ways of using chemical dyes to stain specific bacteria to study them easier

Question 5

What did Robert Koch do in 1878?

Answer 5

Koch and his group of scientist funded by the German GOV Koch identified the microbe that caused anthrax in SHEEP

Question 6

Why was Koch’s work in 1878 a break through?

Answer 6

It was the FIRST time that a SPECIFIC microbe had been identified that caused a SPECIFIC disease

Question 7

What did Koch continue to do after his major break through of 1878?

Answer 7

Using the same methods he identified the microbe that caused BLOOD POISONING in 1878,

THEN 4 years later the TUBERCULOSIS microbe

Question 8

What did Koch’s work inspire in the 1880s?

Answer 8

other scientists used Koch’s methods and then quickly identified some other pathogens

Question 9

Name 1 pathogen discovered by other microbes?

Answer 9

1883

Question 10

However how was the work of Koch and these other scientists limited?

Answer 10

identifying the pathogens did not mean prevention was available