Medicine Part 3 Flashcards

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Louis Pasteur

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Germ theory
Made vaccines against chicken cholera, anthrax and rabies
French

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Germ theory

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1861
Louis Pasteur
Theory that disease is spread by tiny micro-organisms that exist and cause matter to decay
Ideas weren’t accepted in Britain

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Koch

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Same time as Pasteur 
Stained bacteria 
Able to identify specific germs and was able to determine what they caused 
Identified diphtheria and typhoid
Magic bullets
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4
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Ehrlich

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1910 created Salvarsan 606
Chemical which killed syphilis germs
First chemical treatment

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