14.2 - The Human Conquest of Disease
- germ theory
- vaccines
- sanitation
- Edwin Chadwick (1800 - 1890)
- British reformer
- Reliable & clean water was critical to healthy communities
- John Snow (1813 - 1858)
- Founding father of Epidemiology
- Found that it was not "bad air" that caused Cholera, but germs in the water
- Louis Pasteur
- Demonstrated the existence of bacteria
- Developed Rabies inoculation
- Edward Jenner
- cholera
- polio
- measles
- smallpox