HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Yellow Fever, Chemical Industry, Pasteurization
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History 249 health and the healer in the western world. Continuation of modern medicine 2 laboratory medicine & the modern medical profession. Kill the bacteria before it has contact with humans = principle of pasteurisation though it is not possible to pasteurise a whole patient. The area of organic chemistry or biochemistry comes in. Or metchnikoff"s parallel way of explaining immunity with cellular immunity = in the cells that immunity resides as cells were discovered that eat" bacteria. When americans engaged with cuba with the spanish-american war there was much yellow fever and thus they wished to beat it. The discovery is depicted in a series of hagiographic paintings known as great moments in the history of medicine" somewhat story-telling as doctor"s are depicted as saints. Original belief that chemical and organic medicine were incompatible because of analysis and synthesis. End of the 19thc = action of morphine could be understood and it could be recreated in the laboratory.
