ANTC68H3 Chapter : Lecture2.ANTC68.docx
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Hippocrates (460 377 bce: greek physician father of medicine, adhered to the principles of observation in medicine, believed in humoral theory. Anton van leeuwenhoek (1623 1723: father of microbiology, visualized bacteria under the lends of a rudimentary microscope. Searchers are old woman that would go district to district to figure out. Edward jenner (1749-1823) how many died of what: father of immunology, 1796: inoculated gardener"s son with pus from milkmaid"s cowpox blisters, vaccination eventually led to eradication of smallpox. Injected boy with pus from an active small pox patient and boy was immune. Epidemiology: cause of epidemic broad street pump, removed handle, no one believed him because cholera deaths were already declining, people were a fan of the miasma theory, no disease agent found until 1883 by koch. William farr (1807-1883: father of epidemiology, registrar general of london who emphasized consistency in bills of mortality, refined life table event history analysis form (see slide 13)
