BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Amoxicillin, Streptomycin, Louis Pasteur

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Life expectancy: data for canada: 1900: 44 years old, main causes of death: pneumonia, tuberculosis, influenza, lasted until about the 1950s, 2004: 82 years old, main causes of death: heart disease, cancer, stroke. In wwi and wwii, there were more deaths due to infection than combat. Agostino bassi: proved germ theory of disease in 1844 about 150 years ago. Louis pasteur developed pasteurization: 1864: people used to drink spoiled milk and get sick, figured out that bacteria was the source of the illness, heated up the milk, killed bacteria. Lister developed antisepsis in 1867: killed bacteria during surgery, reduced disease by eliminating microbes from our food. Idea that you can colour some bacteria blue and other bacteria red: this points to a chemical difference between the microscopic animals, there"s a selectivity in the stains and how they react with certain microorganisms. Medicine in 1908: but, it was still a breakthrough so erlich won the nobel prize in.