ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diarrhea, Antimicrobial Resistance, Organism
25 Oct 2017
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Hippocrates (ancient greek) emphasized air, water and places (environmental elements) The 4 humours - o balance = illness (hippocrates) Miasma (bad air) theory of disease - this is where malaria is derived from. The rise of large religious communities (and rise of cities/colonies), became a time of pestilence and plague. Food borne and environmental borne (bad sanitation). Religion provided a way to understand death and illness due to the absence of biological knowledge. Too focused on the single cause of disease there are many causes. \ Edward jenner: milk-maids (who milked cows) seemed immune to smallpox. Robert koch - discovered cholera bacteria - stressed disease speci city - one microorganism is responsible for one type of illness. They are living creates (plant and animal related) Ubiquitous - everywhere all the time (10mi per sq/cm. on skin) Indigenous microorganisms: (normal populations of microbes on an organism (me)! Symbiotic: microorganisms and host bene t (good bacteria)
