BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gerhard Domagk, Paul Erlich, Agostino Bassi

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Almost of pop would be killed of by disease. Couldn"t come up with any cures because they didn"t know what caused it etc. Back in the day thought disease was caused by bad smells. Flowers, spices etc. were used to prevent disease from occurring. No beneit to this what so ever. Therefore, couldn"t come up with any treatment for it. Destroying people because they thought they were responsible for it. Infecion developed ater giving birth = 30% death rate. When a woman gave birth = terrifying event to go through. Wwi & wwii more deaths due to infecion than combat. More soldiers died from infecion than actual combat. Agosino bassi proved germ theory of disease 1844. 150 years ago it was discovered by germs/ bacteria. Tested with silk worms and caused disease in silk worms. Use math to ind where disease comes from. All her did was to make a map and ploted each case of cholera.