Chap 1 Flashcards
Brothers who invented the early microscope
Janssen Brothers
This guy was published but DID NOT get a nobel
Hooke
Described skin pond water teeth scrapings
Leeuwenhoek
What is abiogenesis?
spontaneous life springs forth from dead things
Suggested biogenesis but did not prove it
leeuwenhoek
Found that if flies could not land on red meat, no maggots
Redi
Who is responsible for disproving miasma (dirty air) with his swan neck experiment?
Pasteur
What is scwann cell theory
All organisms arise from pre existing cells
Founder of small pox vaccine
Jenner - jennerated the first vaccine
The study of the source cause and mode of transmission
epidemiology
Cholera was caused by water supply infected….by who?
Snow
Semmelweis saved birthing mom’s lifes how?
suggested handwashing
Who came up with germ hypothesis?
Pasteur
People were dying from surgery. This person came up with antisepsis using phenol gas
Lister
Koch’s postulates proved germ theory by linking a specific organism to a specific disease. What are the steps?
- got specimen from dead animal
- create pure culture
- Inject the culture into a healthy animal
- After the animal dies, get a pure culture.
