Industrial / Early Modern Medicine

Question 1

Before Pasteur’s work in ___ most scientists believed in ___ ___

Answer 1

1861
Spontaneous generation

Question 2

Who were contagionists and anti-contagionists

Answer 2

Contagionists believed disease could spread through contact
Anti-contagionists believed disease spread through miasma

Question 3

In ___ Pasteur published his theory that ___ were causing infections

Answer 3

1861
Germs

Question 4

A famous doctor called ___ ___ opposed Pasteur’s theory and supported the theory of spontaneous generation

Answer 4

Charlton Bastian

Question 5

What were the implications of Germ theory?

Answer 5

Disproved miasma, spontaneous generation and four humours

Question 6

In 19th Century Britain medical treatments became ___

Answer 6

Safer

Question 7

Using Pasteur’s germ theory, a German doctor called ___ ___ explained that germs could cause ___

Answer 7

Robert Koch
Human disease

Question 8

Koch showed that not all germs were ___

Answer 8

The same

Question 9

Koch identified different ___ that caused diseases
He then dyed bacteria and viewed them using ___

Answer 9

Microbes
Microscopes

Question 10

Scientists discovered that not all microbes…

Answer 10

Caused harmful disease

Question 11

Koch and Pasteur inspired a generation of scientists called…
They were interested in…

Answer 11

Microbe hunters
Diseases and how to prevent them

Question 12

How did Pasteur help develop the vaccine in 1879

Answer 12

Discovered that weakened cholera germs made a chicken immune
He then created vaccines for rabies and other diseases

Question 13

What war in 1871 drove developments?

Answer 13

Franco-Prussian war (between France and Germany)