HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Water Purification, Microorganism, Max Joseph Von Pettenkofer
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Max von pettenkofer (1818 -1901: steadfastly refused to believe in the germ theory. Believed that there was a factor in the air (x factor) and a factor in the dirt (y factor) that caused disease. Independently there is no diseases caused, but together (co-dependent) they result in disease: drank a vial of bacteria contaminated water. When koch isolated the bacteria, pettenkofer asked for a sample. In front of a large crowd of demonstrators that supported him, he drank the vial and told koch that he did not get sick from it and that nothing happened. What he didn"t report were the symptoms he got such as diarrhea, etc. Believed that he had experienced cholera before, so this episode wasn"t as serious. Disease caused by bad vapors": seen as the socialists. Soon took his life after more people believed in contagionists" theory. Believed in the germ theory" announced by pasteur (1862)
