worse, we would not know how to cure most of their diseases. The world populationwould probably be half the size that it is today. But, thanks to the "Golden Age ofMicrobiology", and the people who tried to find cures and such, we now have ways to over come most of the world's diseases.

The "Golden Age" was only 20 years long, from 1880 to about 1900. It was the

time when about three scientists helped to better science's technologies and cures. The

first of these three was Pasteur. Some of his contributions to science were the creation of

but he realized that he could not totally determine what a certain bacteria classified as. He

surgery or a sterile working area. Lister then noticed that this was a danger to people's

of pasteurization. Around the time of 1870, there was a problem with the making of beer

did not believe him and would call him crazy. Lister was called crazy so many times that

would have many more of the same bacteria to look at and observe. Koch also noticed

Koch discovered how to re-isolate pathogens, called anthrax.

another organism, that the other organism would get the same disease of the first. Thus,

the products and then refrigerating them for a long period of time. Thus came the idea of

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