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1800 – Continuity or Change?

Continuity Change
• Still don’t understand cause of • Technology, especially microscope
disease (1683)
• Quacks • Chemistry – gases
• Problems in surgery – infection, pain, • Doctors better trained, closer
bleeding observation
• Rapid industrialization meant worse • Surgeons better trained via colleges
public health • Dissection, better understanding,
new surgical procedures
• Vaccines, first in 1798
From the 19th to the 20th Century many people battled to overcome Infectious disease.
The most important are below and their work should been seen as complimentary to
each other:-

Jenner (smallpox vaccine) + Pasteur (germ theory, vaccines) + Koch (proved germs
caused disease, bacteriology) + Behring (anti-toxins) + Ehrlich (first chemical drug,
Salvarsan 606) + Domagk (Prontosil, Sulphonamides)

FLEMING, FLOREY AND CHAIN, PENICILLIN to ANTIBIOTICS

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