Pasteur and Koch Flashcards
What crazy things did people believe disease came from in the 19th century.
Miasma, spontaneous generation
What did Pasteur do as the first punch?
He challenged old beliefs, hypothesising that germs cause disease.
How did Pasteur prove his theory on germs?
Proving milk went off by bacteria in the air, even said same bacteria could make people ill. Called this GERM THEORY.
How did Koch take the next step from Pasteur?
He isolated anthrax bacteria and injected into mice, who became ill and then got better again.
What war helped to speed up medical progress?
Franco Prussian War 1870-71. Their research had national pride at stake.
How did Koch disprove the ideas that all bacteria was the same?
He stained bacteria and even photographed them. Which led to the identification of 21 disease causing germs by 1900.
What did Pasteur study in chicken and what did he find?
Cholera. He found that when he injected an old culture of cholera into chickens, they fell ill but did not die as expected. From that point on they were resistant to fresh cholera injections.
Why was Pasteur injecting cholera into chickens not a new idea?
As the father of vaccination - Edward Jenner, a decade earlier found that by injecting cow pox into people it could immunise people against small pox.
What was groundbreaking about Pasteur?
He was the first person to create Vaccines in a lab.
What did it mean when Pasteur learned how to manufacture vaccines? Statistics?
That they could be manufactured on a mass scale.
Who in Britain lectured about Pasteur’s work? What was the result?
Tyndall, Roberts, Cheyne.
The ideas of Pasteur and Koch spread rapidly.
What were the new generation of Pasteur and Koch people known as?
The Microbe Hunters
