3.1.2 Koch & Pasteur's Vaccination

Question 1

Using Pasteur’s Germ Theory, which German doctor explained that germs could cause human disease?

Answer 1

Robert Koch

Question 2

What did Koch show in terms of germs?

Answer 2

They are not all the same

Question 3

What did Koch identify in 1876?

Answer 3

The different microbes that caused anthrax

Question 4

What did Koch identify in 1878?

Answer 4

The different microbes that caused septicaemia

Question 5

What did Koch identify in 1882?

Answer 5

The different microbes that caused tuberculosis

Question 6

What did Koch identify in 1883 and how?

Answer 6

The different microbes that caused cholera by injecting animals with diseases and then dying the bacteria and viewed them under microscopes

Question 7

Who gave lectures on Germ Theory to British doctors?

Answer 7

John Tyndall - he refuted Bastian’s ideas about spontaneous generation

Question 8

Which British doctor created a medical version of Germ Theory?

Answer 8

Dr William Roberts

Question 9

What did William Chenye do?

Answer 9

He translated Koch’s work and highlighted that not all microbes caused harmful disease

Question 10

Koch and Pasteur inspired a generation of scientists who were called what?

Answer 10

Microbe hunters

Question 11

What were ‘microbe hunters’ interested in?

Answer 11

Diseases and how to prevent them

Question 12

In which year did Pasteur accidentally show that vaccinations could cause disease?

Answer 12

1879

Question 13

How did Pasteur accidentally show that vaccinations could cause disease?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What did Pasteur create in 1881?

Answer 14

Pasteur created a weakened (attenuated) vaccine for for anthrax in sheep

Question 15

Pasteur created a vaccine for rabies in which year?

Answer 15

1884 and a year later it was applied to human subjects

Question 16

Why is Pasteur’s contribution to vaccines so important?

Answer 16

It allowed some of the worlds deadliest diseases to be eradicated

Question 17

Why was the Franco Prussian war (between France and Germany) important for developments?

Answer 17

The war ended in 1871. Some historians think national rivalry between Koch and Pasteur drove developments.
Scientific advances were propelled forward by competition

Question 18

There was an internal rivalry to understand a germ called what?

Answer 18

Diphtheria

Question 19

In what year and by who was it shown that diphtheria produced a poison?

Answer 19

Pierre Roux

Question 20

Who showed that if Diphtheria was diluted in produced an antitoxin?

Answer 20

Emily Behring 1890

Question 21

When was typhus discovered?

Answer 21

1880

Question 22

When was pneumionia discovered?

Answer 22

1880

Question 23

When was tetanus discovered?

Answer 23

1884

Question 24

When was diphtheria discovered?

Answer 24

1884

Question 25

When was The Plague discovered?

Answer 25

1890

Question 26

What was the beginning of bacteriology?

Answer 26

Koch linking a disease the the microbe that caused it