Louis Pasteur · Science
How Pasteur carried his microbes from the brewery to the sickbed, arguing that specific living germs cause specific infectious diseases - the idea that, with Lister’s antiseptic surgery and the conquest of one plague after another, would save more lives than perhaps any other in the history of medicine.
You learned that Pasteur extended his microbial theory to disease, arguing that specific germs cause specific illnesses and can be transmitted, fought, and excluded. In your own words, explain the chain of reasoning from fermentation to germ theory, the evidence Pasteur and others assembled, and how it transformed sur…
Leads to Joseph Lister.
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