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History of Microbiology Time Line
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first microbes
1673-1723-Anton van Leeuwenhoek Observed the first microbes in 1673, with the microscope he made. Throughout these years he wrote about the animalcules he seen through his simple single lens microscopes. -
smallpox becoming a big issue
Smallpox hit North America and a 38% infection rate was recorded in Boston. Benjamin Franklin lobbied for variolation. -
edward jenner
1796-Edward Jenner
Inoculated a person with cowpox virus, who was then protected from smallpox.Protection called Immunity.
Vaccination is derived from vacca for cow Vaccinations came about. -
Agostino Bassi
1835-Agostino Bassi
Showed that silkworm disease was caused by a fugus. -
lgnaz semmelweis
1840-Ignaz Semmelweis
Advocated hand washing to prevent transmission of puerperal fever from one OB patient to another -
Rudolf Virchow
1858-Rudolf Virchow
Challenged the case for spontaneous generation with the concept of biogenesis.
Hypothesized that living cells arise only from preexisting living cells. -
Joseph Lister
1860-Joseph Lister
Used a chemical disinfectant to prevent surgical wound infections, based on Pasteur's work showing that microbes are in the air, can spoil food, and cause diseases. (Clean the materials that you use.) -
Louis Pasteur
1861-Louis Pasteur
Disproved Spontaneous Generation.
Demonstrated that microorganisms are present in the air and can contaminate sterile solutions.
Created the S-shaped flask that kept microbes out but let air in -
outbreak in saudi arbia
their was a cholera outbreak that killed upwards of 15,000 and then spread worldwide soon after -
thomas huxley
Thomas H. Huxley's Biogenesis and Abiogenesis address is the first clear statement of the basic outlines of modern Darwinian science on the question of the origin of life. The terms biogenesis for life only from preexisting life and abiogenesis for life from nonliving materials, what had previously been called spontaneous generation -
Robert koch
1876-Robert Koch Proved that bacterium causes anthrax and provided the experimental steps--Koch's Postulates to prove that a specific microbe causes a specific disease -
Robert koch
isolated and cultured the cholera bacillus, Vibrio cholerae. Italian anatomist Fillipo Pacini discovered the bacillus in 1854, but did not prove that it caused cholera -
plague
The plague in China reached its port cities and began to circle the globe. In Hong Kong it killed some 10,000 people. Dr Alexander Yersin, a French bacteriologist sent to Hong Kong by the Institute Pasteur -
Albert Ruskin Cook
became the first person to describe buruli ulcers. The disease is primarily an infection of subcutaneous fat, resulting in a focus of necrotic (dead) fat containing myriads of the mycobacteria in characteristic spherules formed within the dead fat cells
