LOUIS

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• LOUIS
• PASTEUR

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1) What did people believe about disease and
germs before Pasteur? A specific phrase is
needed, and you need to explain it. 2

• SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
• People believed that germs were the result
• of disease, not the cause of it!

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2) What was Pasteurs discovery called, and when
did he make it? 2

• GERM THEORY 1861
• Pasteur had proved that germs were the cause of
  disease!!!

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3) Why was Pasteur studying germs?

• The brewing
• industry wanted
• him to explain
• why their beer
• was going bad

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4) Briefly explain how he proved that germs are
everywhere.

• Pasteur sterilised water by boiling it, put
• some into a sterile flask, and left some
• exposed to the air this was soon full of
• germs he had proved that germs are all
• around us!

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5) How did technology help him?

• Pasteur used the
• MICROSCOPE to see the
• germs clearly

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6) How was his theory a development from
Jenners?

• Pasteur could now explain how vaccination
• worked

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7) Name two diseases he developed vaccinations
for. 2

• CHICKEN
• CHOLERA
• 2) ANTHRAX