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Theory that bad air caused
illness.
Miasma Theory



practice of quarantining people with leprosy
suggesting that people understood that dz's could be
communicable.
Leprosy in the Bible Leprosy is communicable, it is also a dz that
progresses slowly meaning that people were likely
quarantined after they had already spread the dz to
others.

Built aqueducts which brought
fresh water into the city, and a
giant sewer "Cloaca Maxima"
which carried waste away into
Roman Sewage System the river Tiber.
Researchers believe that this
infrastructure helped protect
Romans from epidemics of
waterborne illnesses.




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"FATHER OF WESTERN
MEDICINE"
Dz is not caused by the
supernatural.

Hippocrates (460-377 BC)

Hippocratic Corpus & Oath (To
be a healer #1 job is to take care
of that patient w/o harming
them)

FATHER OF SCIENTIFIC
HISTORY (To keep records of),
advocated for evidence-based
analysis of cause and effect
Thucydides (460-395 BC) reasoning, studied Athenian
plague and discovered immunity


Immunity: People who sick and
didn't die did not get sick again.

Proposed that disease could be
caused by "certain minute
Marcus Terentius Varro animals/creatures... which
(116-27 BC) cannot be seen by the eye."


He was roman

"FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY"
Dutch cloth merchant, was the
first to develop a lens powerful
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
enough to view microbes.
(1632-1723)
Observed single-celled
organisms "animalcules" from
rain water.




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Fermentation, pasteurization (to
be able to last longer), and
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) spoilage by microbes.


Vaccines e.g. Rabies

Established method for
connecting pathogen with
Robert Koch (1843-1910) specific dz; Koch's postulates.
helped discover: anthrax,
cholera, tuberculosis

Developed a new way to
Carolus Linnaeus (1707- categorize plants and animals.
1778) *Taxonomy Systema Naturae, KPCOFGS



Proposed four kingdoms
(Animals, Plants, PROTISTS,
MONERA)
Ernst Haekel (1834-1919)
*Taxonomy
wrote General Morphology of
Organisms proposing four
kingdoms.

Proposed adding a fifth
Robert Whittaker (1920- kingdom (Fungi)
1980) *Taxonomy



Carl Woese (1928-1912) & Molecular Techniques (rRNA) and three domains
George Fox (1945-) (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya)
*Taxonomy




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