Test 3

Question 1

What two treatments were still common during the 18th and 19th century?

Answer 1

Bleeding and purging

Question 2

What was the enlightenment?

Answer 2

A movement across Europe that promoted the idea that people could think for themselves.

Question 3

What is a microbe?

Answer 3

Any living organism that is too small to see without a microscope including bacteria.

Question 4

What’s are the four basic principles of the germ theory?

Answer 4

• The air contains living micro organisms
• Microbes are not evenly distributed
• microbes cause decay
• microbes can be killed by heating them

Question 5

Why did the link between germs and disease take so long to be accepted by doctors?

Answer 5

Pasteur was a scientist not a doctor and focused on decaying food not disease, most people still believed in spontaneous generation

Question 6

What’s four methods did Koch use to identify disease-causing microbes, like he had done with tuberculosis?

Answer 6

• The microbe is presents in every case of the disease
• When taken from the body the microbe can be reproduced into a pure culture.
• the disease can be reproduced in test animals using the culture
• Microbe can be taken out of the test animal and used to start a fresh culture