The significance of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch and Paul Elrich.

After Pasteur found out about this he set about to use this to find a vaccine for chicken cholera in my opinion this was only because Pasteur was French and German and at this time there was the Franco Prussian war was upon them.

After experimentation with chickens Pasteur and his lab partner found out that if you inject a weakened sample of the chicken cholera in the chickens they become immune to the infection after this Pasteur also discovered a vaccine for tuberculosis.

After having studied both of these great scientist I cannot come to a decision about who is more important in the history of medicine as if pateurs work on the germ theory hadn’t have been done Koch would not have worked to make bacteriology but if Koch had not done this pasture would not have gone back to find a vaccine for chicken cholera.

After having read about both these men’s work Paul Ehlich began to look for chemical, which could work as synthetic anti-bodies which by this time have been worked out to be the bodies defences and only attack certain chemicals in the body

After years of work and experimenting with over 600 chemicals none worked until his results where checked again and appeared to have 1 working chemical. Chemical 606 this was first used in1911 under the trade name of salvasan 606 this was to become the first magic bullet which is a turning point in the history of medicine because now more scientific research begins to made in to finding more magic bullets but no more are found until the discovery of prontasil in 1932 just before world war 1.

In conclusion to looking at all three of these historic figures I still cannot make a decision on which one is the most significant in the history of medicine and cannot make a solid decision on who had the biggest impact on the history of medicine and why.

Because on the one hand if Pasteur did not discover germs and Publish his germ theory no other scientists could of carried on research in to germs and find vaccines and how to kill germs there for Pasteur should be the most significant but if Koch wouldn’t have done his work on microbe we wouldn’t be able to diffenciate between  micro organism stopping us from developing vaccines so no matter who you talk about every made a contribution and with out any of them we could not be where we are today.