Microbes And Disease In The 1800s

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In the 1800 and 1900 the population of Europe doubled. It wasn’t because of bigger families. It’s because of the death rate fell. “Medical advances and improvements in public sanitation also slowed death rates” (249) do to that women gave birth to healthier babies, new medicines kept people alive, and the risks off famine were decreased. Fighting against disease wasn’t easy there were many doctors who didn’t really take to importance to the germ theory. But in 1870 the French chemist Louis Pasteur which saw the difference between microbes and disease. By discovering that they created vaccines against rabies and anthrax and discovered the process called pasteurization. “The bacteria that caused tuberculosis a respiratory disease that claimed

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