LESSON 1d: HISTORY OF MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards
The first ever evidence about microbiology.
Holy Bible
Said that Illness can be transferred from one person to another.
Hippocrates
A person that recovered from the same illness can take care an ill person with the same illness.
Thucydides
Said that invisible animals enter our body and causes diseases
Varro
Said the seeds of diseases
Lucretius
A theory where diseases are brought by a bad air
Miasma Theory
Built the early compound microscope
Robert Hooke
Coined the term ‘‘cell”
Robert Hooke
First to discover microorganism (Fungi)
Robert Hooke
Created an experiment where maggots cannot grow onto the meat in the jar covered with gauze.
Francisco Redi
The first ever person to observed a bacteria.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek