AGRI 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Osler, Rudolf Virchow, Louis Pasteur

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Agriculture
• Course: AGRI 224
• Professor: Aresenault

Document Summary

Researchers such as louis pasteur and robert koch, physicians rudolph virchow and sir william osler, and veterinarian james steele continually crossed the boundaries of human and animal health. Attenuated vaccination - weaken a microbe and infect someone with it and they can fight it off and become immune (vaccines today) Microbial fermentation - microbes carrying out metabolic activity. Pasteurization - heat up milk for example, to kill the bacteria and then it is s to consume. Vaccination is 2nd most important discovery we have made to preven infectious diseases. First most important discovery to prevent infectious disease is sanitation - clean water and sewer systems. Helped raise animals as a boy and maintained research animals while working as physician. Germ theory of disease - discovered germs get inside of us and cause diseas. Studied anthrax and the cause due to infection by bacillus anthracis. Koch traveled to north and east africa to study rinderpest in cattle.