Biologists & Medicine · Life sciences
Pasteur, Koch & the Germ Theory
How Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch replaced 'bad air' with microbes: fermentation, the swan-neck flask, pasteurization, Koch's postulates, anthrax, rabies and cholera, and the medicine and public health that followed.
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Prereqs: Hippocrates & Galen (miasma, humors). Next: Fleming & penicillin; Jenner & vaccines; Epidemiology. Sources: Frank Snowden, *Epidemics and Society* (Yale, 2019); Patrice Debré, *Louis Pasteur* (1998); Crash Course History of Science #24.Next: 1. Before germs