Diseases

By anthony daquino
  • Period: to

    diseases

  • invention of microscope

  • Anton Van leeuwenhuok

    First person to see bacteria

  • francesco Redi

    The first serious attack on the idea of spontaneous generation was made in 1668 by Francesco Redi.

  • Anton

    reported sightings of bacteria and algae to royal society in London

  • Edward jenner born

  • carried out famous surgery

    Carried out famous surgery on 8 year old James phipps, he injected a small amount of cow pox into the boy to see if his body could build up immunity to the diseases

  • smallpox vaccinisation

    His smallpox immunisation was given to people around the world

  • Micro-organisms

    The 1800s brought knowledge of the cultivation and identification of micro-organisms.

  • Better sewerage

  • Jenner dies

  • John Snow

    John Snow proposed a theory that a ‘miasma’ or cloud of infection could explain how cholera epidemic in London

  • Louis pasteur, Robert Koch

    Theory that cells could arrise from nonliving cells

  • Semmelwies dies

  • Lister

    Lister read about pastuers theory but believed that microbes in the air caused diseases

  • Ignaz Semmelweiz

    Germ theory was finally appreciated 5 years after semmelweiz death

  • penicilin

    Discovery of penicilin

  • Joseph Lister dies

  • alexander fleming

    Fleming discovers penicillin from the Penicillium notatum mold

  • Fleming receives nobel prize

  • 1870

    the germs in broth experiment was done.