Ch 1: History Of Microbiology Study Guide Rated A+

Ignaz Semmelweis {Ans: Childbed Fever- link to child birth, he found a way to fight this disease, the women after she gave birth would come down with childbed fever and eventually die. Caused mainly among medical students because they were not washing their hands after working with a cadaver that had childbed fever.}Ex of Spontaneous Generation {Ans: maggots forming on top of meat. Something living can spontaneously appear. Maybe disease would spontaneously generate?}Edward Jenner {Ans: 1798, before spontaneous generation was refuted, this guy was considered the father of vaccination. Exposure to cow pox would protect against infection by small pox. This was considered a vaccination to small pox. This was an accidental discovery. He actually came up with the first vaccination but did not study vaccination}Louis Pasteur {Ans: 1861 he refuted spontaneous generation, He did that by heating broth in flask with an S-shaped neck failed to spawn microbes despite the fact that it was exposed to air. He broke off some of the necks and showed that microbes would eventually grow in the heated broth. This started the idea of microbiology.}Alexander Fleming {Ans: 1928, discovered 1st antibiotic Serendipitous discovery of penicillin which is an