Historical People, Contributions, etc Flashcards
Considered the father of medicine.
Miasma theory
Hippocrates
Started the idea of immunology.
(Athenian plague)
Thucydides
Credited with advancing microbio and immunulogy.
-Found fermentation= certain microbes
Louis Pasteur
Linked that specific microbes caused specific diseases.
- one disease, one microbe
-Anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis
Robert Koch
What are the steps for Koch’s postulates?
- Microbe must be found in affected individuals but not in healthy individuals.
- Microbe must be isolated and grown in pure culture.
- Microbe should cause disease when introduced to healthy individuals.
- Microbe must be re-isolated from the newly affected individual and identified as the same microbe from original affected individuals.
Introduced the idea of taxonomy.
-levels of kingdom, class, order, family , genus, and species
- he started with just plants and animals
Carolus Linnaeus
monera and protists introduced to the original tree of life by this guy
Ernst Haeckel
Added fungi to the tree of life.
Robert Whittaker.
what does the phylogentic tree of life include?
what are the three areas of life?
- Archaea
- Bacteria
- Eukarya
What are the Bergey’s Manuals used for?
Identifying bacteria
Who disproved spontaneous generation? How?
Louis Pasteur
-swan neck flasks, allowed air into broth but not bacteria
What is spontaneous generation theory?
The idea that life appeared out of nowhere.
Found out there was a connection between the patients death (maternal + child) and physicians. Recognized physicians were delivering babies after doing autopsies and spreading germs. He reinforced the idea of hand-washing ( it work lol)
Ignaz Semmelweis
Developed proper care of surgical wounds and sterilization of surgical equipment
Joseph Lister
Who proposed miasma theory
Greeks
