The history of the Germ Theroy of Disease

  • Anton Von Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723

    Anton Von Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723
    -Made simpile Microscopes
    -200x Magnification
    -Wrote a book about the things he saw
    -recorded microbes
  • Robert Hooke 1635-1703

    Robert Hooke 1635-1703
    -Went to Oxford
    -in the Royal Soicity
    -Wrote a book about things you cant see
    -life cycle mosquitoes
    -Developed compund microscope
  • Matthias Jokob Schleiden 1804-1881

    Matthias Jokob Schleiden 1804-1881
    -Studied plants, animals and microbes
    -intrested in the digestive system
    -suggested microbes were made of cells
  • Rudolf Carl Vichow 1821-1902

    Rudolf Carl Vichow 1821-1902
    -Theroy of the viris
    -found the first moleculare structure
    -adult human contains about 10 trillion cells
  • Ignaz Phillipp Semmelwiss 1818-1865

    Ignaz Phillipp Semmelwiss 1818-1865
    -Prevented a woman from dying
    -Preformed autopsy
    -Belived that doctors were carring disesses
  • Florence Nightingale 1820- 1910

    Florence Nightingale 1820- 1910
    -Established that clenlyness was important
    -Helped soliders in a millitary hospital
  • Louis Pasteur 1822-1895

    Louis Pasteur 1822-1895
    -French Scientest
    -Studied microbes
    -71 deggress kills microbes
  • Joseph lister 1827-1912

    Joseph lister 1827-1912
    -Preformed surgurys
    -only 45% of the surgerys worked
  • Robert Koch 1843-1910

    Robert Koch 1843-1910
    -identified a microbe that caused anthrax
    -used mice to find cures
  • William Stewart Halsted 1852-1922

    William Stewart Halsted 1852-1922
    -Prevented microbes from spreding -First surgen to use rubber gloves