Golden Age Scientists Flashcards
Who enforced control experiments?
Meat exposed to flies
Redi
Who proposed spontaneous generation
Living things can arise from nonliving matter?
Aristole
Who believe microbes spontaneous generation?
beef gravy and infusion of plant material
Needham
Who believed in spontaneous generation of microorganisms does not occur?
Boiled gravy
Spallanzani
Who developed the Germ Theory?
Swan Neck
Pasteur
tilted– dust made cloudy
fermentation–yeast and sealed
Theory– microorganisms are responsible for diease
Who discovered agents of disease?
Robert Koch
What did Robert Koch contribute?
Took blood from animals–rode shape in microscope
- agents of disease
- simple staining
- first photomicrograph bacteria/tissue
- Steam to sterilize/use petri dishes
- Technique to transfer bacteria
- Bacteria as distinct species
Name Koch’s postulates
- Agents must be found in every case of the disease and be absent from the healthy host
- Agent must be isolated and grown outside the host
- Agent is introduced into a healthy, susceptible host, the host must get the disease
- Same agent must be found in the diseased experimental host
Who is…
Hand washing
Mental institution b/c no one believed him, died cuz person didn’t wash hands before treating him
Ignaz Semmelweis
Who developed antiseptic technique?
Lister
Who focused on hygiene?
Nightingale
Who focused on infection control and epidemiology?
Water pump, cholera
Snow
Who studied the field of immunology?
Jenner’s Vaccine
Who destroyed some pathogen and leave others unharmed?
magic bullets, chemotherapy
Ehrlich
