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Excerpt from The March of Medicine
At the same time that Virchow was laying the foundations o pathology in Germany, Pasteur developed the germ theory i: France. Pasteur was a chemist and in that field his earlier stu led him to the discovery that putrefaction is a kind Of fermenta and that both these processes are due to micro-organisms. Showed that the disease of wine which plagued the wine indu in France was due to the action of microbes and that by hea the wine for a short time to a temperature between 50 and 60� the fermenting agent could be destroyed while the wine would main unaltered and would keep indefinitely. This pro well known under the name, pasteurization. A name equal in importance to that of Pasteur in f science of bacteriology is that of Robert Koch. This district physician in a small Prussian town. His thoughtful gave him a microscope on his 28th birthday. We owe her a great debt for Koch went to work studying anthrax, a disease mon among the sheep and cattle of his agricultural district and initiated a series of investigations which revealed the causes great number of diseases, including tuberculosis. Before the of the 19th century there had been discovered the of gonorrhea, suppuration, typhoid fever, malaria, ch certain types of pneumonia, cerebrospinal meningi tetanus or lockjaw, plague, botulism and dysentery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
