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How was penicillin developed? - Science Museum
Feb 23, 2021 · Nearly ten years later in 1937, while investigating microorganisms and the substances they produced, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain uncovered Fleming’s research and assembled a team of scientists to work solely on the 'Penicillin Project'.
Bubonic plague: the first pandemic | Science Museum
The impact of the bubonic plague epidemics of the past still echo across the centuries, reminding us of the devastation that disease can inflict on communities. The Black Death is the name given to the first wave of the plague that swept across Europe in the 1300s.
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Joseph Lister’s antisepsis system - Science Museum
The French scientist Louis Pasteur speculated that the spread of microorganisms (called germs) in the body could explain infectious disease. This was known as the Germ Theory of Disease. Although he never tested the theory, Pasteur suggested that a disease might be controlled by exposing the wound to germ-killing chemicals.
The Microscope - Science Museum
Aug 19, 2019 · Joseph Jackson Lister Not much changed in basic microscope design over the next 200 years, but improvements in lens manufacture (such as the use of purer glass) helped to solve problems like colour distortion and poor image resolution.
Getting here - Science Museum
The nearest tube station is South Kensington. This is on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines and is a 5-minute walk from the museum. Gloucester Road tube station is also on the District, Circle and Piccadilly lines and is a 15-minute walk from the museum.
A Victorian Mental Asylum - Science Museum
Jun 13, 2018 · The Victorian mental asylum has the reputation of a place of misery where inmates were locked up and left to the mercy of their keepers. But when the first large asylums were built in the early 1800s, they were part of a new, more humane attitude towards mental healthcare.
Cholera in Victorian London - Science Museum
Edwin Chadwick, c.1860 The first appearance of cholera in 1831 was followed in 1837 and 1838 by epidemics of influenza and typhoid, prompting the government to ask the lawyer and leading social reformer Edwin Chadwick to carry out an enquiry into sanitation.. In his publication The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population (1842), Chadwick used quantitative methods to show that there was ...
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