1. Boiling it down Neil Matthews The Redhill Academy

2. Summarising text The work of Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 France. His discovery of germs transformed medicine for ever. Pasteur is very important for three reasons: he showed that airborne microbes were the cause of disease he developed more vaccines he challenged old ideas that were incorrect and encouraged others to do the same In the 1850s, Pasteur was asked by a brewer (Monsieur Bigo) to find out why vats of beer were turning sour and had to be thrown away. Using a microscope, Pasteur found thousands of tiny micro-organisms in the beer and became convinced that they were responsible for the beer going sour. Pasteur believed that they caused the beer to go off – they did not appear because the beer was going sour (spontaneous generation). He studied other liquids such as milk, wine and vinegar and concluded the liquids were being contaminated with microbes that floated in the air. Most of the other people in medicine laughed at him.

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