Historical Perspectives Flashcards
Believed living organisms came from non-living things
Aristotle
First to observe bacteria
Used a magnification of ___
Coined animalcules
Father of Bacteriology, Protozoology, Microbiology
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
50-300x
Coined Germ or Seed
Roger Bacon
Manufactured Beer
Prepared Wine
Babylonians
Assyrians
First to make butter
First to make bread
Sumerians
Egyptians
Sanitary laws and quarantine of lepers in the bible
Bury solid waste said Moses
Leviticus 13-15
Deuteronomy 23
Realized that diseases could be transferred through clothing/objects
Set ethical standards for medical practice
Hippocrates
Observed people who already got sick from plague are fine to exposure
Thucydides
Romans contributions:
Tiny animals entered through mouth and nose
“Seeds” of disease
Varro
Lucretius
People who supported Abiogenesis (3)
Life originated from non living matter as imperfect forms
Living forms are animated forms of non-living matter
Oceanic water was the mother from all living organisms
Empedocles
Aristotle
Thales
Black plague was caused by what?
Yersinia pestis
Suggested invisible organisms may cause disease a ____
Girolamo Fracastoro
Contagion
Microscopic worms in blood of victims observed
Athanasius Kircher
Found that the smallest units were “cells”
Used a compound microscope by ___
Robert Hooke
Zacharias Janssen