I am doing research about Louis Pasteur and don't know how to explain how he change our understanding of microbes. Could anyone help me out?
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1. Between him & Dr Koch of Germany, they definitively proved that diseases like pneumonia, typhoid fever & literally dozens of other disease conditions were caused by living entities visible only by microscope. Today we have categorized these germs as bacterial species well-known and subject to control by chemicals and antimicrobials & disinfection techniques & vaccines.
#2 Pasteur proved other diseases of non-human hosts were subject to the same situation:Each time the silkworms got a disease, he found the same bacteria in microscopic exams, and healthy silkworms failed to display these germs.
#3 He also established that rabies was subject to the same rules of contagion, even though no one could see the causative agent under the microscope. There had not yet been tools invented to define viruses, which is what causes rabies, but he understood enough about it from his germ theories of disease to understand prevention & disinfection.
#4 Pasteur established that if the disease-causing bacteria were destroyed by disinfection, they lost the power to infect victims. Thus he forced medical personnel to disinfect themselves during patient exam, treatment & surgery, and that sick bays be disinfected routinely. His findings kicked the crap out of mortality figures for his time, as nosocomial infections declined accordingly.
#5. He also established that infection does not occur spontaneously, nor do microscopic life-forms just spring into being all by themselves. They all requie a precursor germ [or virus]. [See his swan-neck flask experiments to show how his disinfection techniques ruled out spontaneous life from popular theories of his day.]
#2 Pasteur proved other diseases of non-human hosts were subject to the same situation:Each time the silkworms got a disease, he found the same bacteria in microscopic exams, and healthy silkworms failed to display these germs.
#3 He also established that rabies was subject to the same rules of contagion, even though no one could see the causative agent under the microscope. There had not yet been tools invented to define viruses, which is what causes rabies, but he understood enough about it from his germ theories of disease to understand prevention & disinfection.
#4 Pasteur established that if the disease-causing bacteria were destroyed by disinfection, they lost the power to infect victims. Thus he forced medical personnel to disinfect themselves during patient exam, treatment & surgery, and that sick bays be disinfected routinely. His findings kicked the crap out of mortality figures for his time, as nosocomial infections declined accordingly.
#5. He also established that infection does not occur spontaneously, nor do microscopic life-forms just spring into being all by themselves. They all requie a precursor germ [or virus]. [See his swan-neck flask experiments to show how his disinfection techniques ruled out spontaneous life from popular theories of his day.]
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what louis pasteur calls microbes is now better known as germs which are spread in many ways contact with dirt being one way back when he was living soap and water where a another language to most people.
so washing is something most of us do when we have been into the WC or loo, or the john the toilet as it helps not to spread germs.
cleanliness is what stops diseases.
so washing is something most of us do when we have been into the WC or loo, or the john the toilet as it helps not to spread germs.
cleanliness is what stops diseases.