Treatment of illness and disease facts, figures & dates Flashcards
Pasteur experimented on milk, vinegar and alcohol (beer and wine) to prove that germs caused disease.
1850s
Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation at a competition organised by the French Academy of Science
1860
Pasteur published Germ Theory
1861
Pasteur silkworm experiments to link mico-organisms to disease in animals.
1865
Pasteur published Germ Theory and its Application to Medicine
1878
Koch set up a lab and developed a method of staining and identifying microorganisms
1872
Koch identified anthrax
1876
Koch identified septicaemia
1878
Koch develops technique of growing cultures in petri dish
1880
Koch identified TB
1882
Koch identified cholera
1883
Pasteur develops vaccine against chicken cholera
1878
Pasteur develops vaccine against anthrax in cows and sheep
1881
Pasteur develops vaccine against rabies
1882 (experimented on humans in 1885)
Curie discovered polonium and radium
1898
Curie Nobel prize for Physics for work on radioactivity
1908
Sorbonne built first radium institute for study of radioactivity - to shrink tumours
1910
Salvarsan 606 discovered to kill the syphilis germ. ______first used on humans.
1909 ~ 1911
Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin mould acts on staphylococcus bacteria. He grew more of the mould and found that it acted against anthrax and diphtheria without harmful side effects.
1928
Florey and Chain became interested in Fleming’s findings and in _______assembled a research team to investigate further. In _____ they effectively tested penicillin on mice and in ____ on a human.
1930s ~ 1939 ~ 1940 ~ 1941
US government gave $80 million to 4 drug companies to find ways to mass produce penicillin.
1942
US government gave $ to mass produce penicllin
$80 million
the US army was using 2 million doses of penicillin a month and there was enough to treat all of the casualties at D-Day
By 1945
