MICR 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, Georges Pouchet, Robert Hooke
1 Jan 2016
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Early microscopes discovered spermatazoa, red blood cells, major microbes: however only wrote in dutch: nobody really knew about his writings and he did not know of other people"s discoveries only after translated. Spontaneous generation: aristotle 384-322 bc: believed some animals like toads, snakes arose from putrid water/mud, helmont 1652: had a recipe for mice, redi 1626-1697: meat in 2 vessles (one in air, one covered w/ cloth gauze) 1351-1355 one third of european population killed (25 million) eventually about 80% killed some believe the first use of germ warfare. Black death: man from oregon: toronto star july 19 2012 septicemic plague, which can cause victims to bleed from the mouth, nose and rectum another case of quarantine: typhoid mary reign of terror 1901-1938 asymptomatic. Semmel weis: austrian physicial: 1850 (at time ~15% of women died during childbirth lying in hospitals )
