3.1.2 Koch & Pasteur's Vaccination Flashcards
Using Pasteur’s Germ Theory, which German doctor explained that germs could cause human disease?
Robert Koch
What did Koch show in terms of germs?
They are not all the same
What did Koch identify in 1876?
The different microbes that caused anthrax
What did Koch identify in 1878?
The different microbes that caused septicaemia
What did Koch identify in 1882?
The different microbes that caused tuberculosis
What did Koch identify in 1883 and how?
The different microbes that caused cholera by injecting animals with diseases and then dying the bacteria and viewed them under microscopes
Who gave lectures on Germ Theory to British doctors?
John Tyndall - he refuted Bastian’s ideas about spontaneous generation
Which British doctor created a medical version of Germ Theory?
Dr William Roberts
What did William Chenye do?
He translated Koch’s work and highlighted that not all microbes caused harmful disease
Koch and Pasteur inspired a generation of scientists who were called what?
Microbe hunters
What were ‘microbe hunters’ interested in?
Diseases and how to prevent them
In which year did Pasteur accidentally show that vaccinations could cause disease?
1879
How did Pasteur accidentally show that vaccinations could cause disease?
A researcher, Charles Cumberland, left out a cholera culture over the weekend, they discovered that weakened (attenuated) cholera germs could made a chicken immune from later stronger bouts of cholera
What did Pasteur create in 1881?
Pasteur created a weakened (attenuated) vaccine for for anthrax in sheep
Pasteur created a vaccine for rabies in which year?
1884 and a year later it was applied to human subjects
Why is Pasteur’s contribution to vaccines so important?
It allowed some of the worlds deadliest diseases to be eradicated
Why was the Franco Prussian war (between France and Germany) important for developments?
The war ended in 1871. Some historians think national rivalry between Koch and Pasteur drove developments.
Scientific advances were propelled forward by competition
There was an internal rivalry to understand a germ called what?
Diphtheria
In what year and by who was it shown that diphtheria produced a poison?
Pierre Roux
Who showed that if Diphtheria was diluted in produced an antitoxin?
Emily Behring 1890
When was typhus discovered?
1880
When was pneumionia discovered?
1880
When was tetanus discovered?
1884
When was diphtheria discovered?
1884
When was The Plague discovered?
1890
What was the beginning of bacteriology?
Koch linking a disease the the microbe that caused it
