The Industrial Period - grade 9 knowledge

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Ideas on cause of disease: what stopped

  • four humours

  • Supernatural + superstition: astrology

  • Decline in power church: no longer believed god cause

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Idea on cause of disease: continuity

  • miasma: popular theory, supported by Florence nightingale + Edward Chadwick

  • Cities in industrial Britain filthy, poor sanitation

  • People see, smell it so thought it caused disease

  • great stink 1858

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What was the theory of spontaneous generation

Idea that microbes were the product of decay and they caused disease

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Summarise Louis Pasteur

  • 1861, came up w Germ Theory, challenged spontaneous generation

  • Theory claimed: microbes cause decay + disease, air full of microbes, microbes can be killed by Pasteurisation (heating)

  • Proved theory through experiments on milk, beer, animals

  • Little impact: doctors like Henry Bastian refused to accept microbes like bacteria could make ppl ill

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Summarise Robert Koch

  • developed Pasteurs ideas to discover different types bacteria which caused specific diseases