Shotguns and Sugar
Shotguns and Sugar
Shotguns & Sugar
S2E4 Medicine in the Early Industrial Revolution
18 minutes Posted Sep 21, 2020 at 3:20 pm.
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This podcast honor’s the unsung inventors that that contributed to the creation of the modern 21st century medical industry. Topics include the creation of vaccinations, compounding (a method of drug development), and Germ Theory (the foundation of modern medicine). People include such famous names as Louis Pasteur and Edward Jenner, but more important are lesser known contributors like Pierre-Joseph Pelletier, Joseph, Bienaimé Caventou, Thomas Mouffet, Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann, and Girolamo Fracastoro.