Asclepiades of Bithynia, influenced by Epicurean philosophy, pioneered medical innovations and foreshadowed the principles of ...

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world ...

Water that comes straight from natural sources, dubbed “raw water,” is gaining popularity. Raw water advocates reject public ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some advances in medical knowledge, scientists still did not understand what caused disease ... 1860s when Louis Pasteur, using Lister ...

What now? Louis Pasteur next discovered the germ, or more precisely, the 'germ theory of disease', in which diseases are spread between people by microscopic organisms which might be shared ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert ... that this same bacteria could cause disease. To describe these ideas, he coined the phrase ‘Germ Theory’. But someone was hot on Pasteur’s ...

The late 19th century ushered in the “germ theory” of disease, giving personal protective gear new significance. After Louis Pasteur demonstrated that germs couldn’t spontaneously generate, Robert ...

Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness ... disproved the chemical decomposition theory. Another popular theory of the ...

Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that microbes can cause illness. Pasteur established that consumable liquids like raw water and milk can harbor disease ...

In the mid-1800s, the germ theory of disease was finally rooted in the minds of scientists and doctors. It took a bit longer for the idea that food, too, can cause microbial disease to be accepted.

In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...