BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Agostino Bassi, Ig Farben, Prontosil
16 May 2016
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Plagues doctor protects by covering self form head to toe. Wore a mask shaped like a beak. Believed the disease was punishment of god. Gathered up the minorities and killed them. Actually caused by bacteria on eas on rates. Wwii - more deaths due to in ection than combat. Use of statistics to nd patters in disease. Built over a cess pit for waste. Artharva - veda identi es living animals causing disease much earlier. Kill bacteria in milk by heating and cooling. People thought this was decreasing nutritional value. Elrich knows as (arsenic) was similar to n, but more poisonous. Salvarsan (salv = safe; arsan = arsenic) 606 ---> rst antibiotic ever. Used against syphilis --> the great pox. Other side effects were less than ideal. Had to be treated for a year. Red dye ----> prontosil ---> metabolized ----> sulfanilamide. Sulfa drugs resemble paba, which make coenzyme f. In sulfanilamide, it has a sulfur instead of a carbon.
