BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gerhard Domagk, Paul Erlich, Agostino Bassi
3 Apr 2017
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In canada life expectancy has doubled in the last 100 years. Changes in quality of life, causes of death have shifted from infectious to. Historically people lived entire lives in unhealthy state (constantly sick parasites) such conditions still exist in developing countries. Antibiotics - are the second best health invention in human history; vaccination is the first. Maternal mortality rate: post natal infections were common therefore maternal mortality rate was 30, surgery survival rate was less than 30, if you had any kind of surgery, you would likely die from infection. Wwi and wwii - more deaths due to infection than combat: people died from malaria, influenza, or cholera, but #1 cause of death was sexually transmitted disease. Historical road to improvements: john snow disproved miasma theory 1854, miasma theory disease caused by bad smells, he carried out scientific investigation during cholera outbreak in. Agostino bassi showed microbes cause disease: showed silkworms could get disease through fungus.
