Lecture TWO (continued): Microbiology is a Cultural Course

3. The Lore of Microbiology
   1. Contagion as Recognized in Throughout History
      1. Bible
      2. Persians
      3. Egyptians
      4. Greeks
      5. Romans
      6. Middle Ages
         (Boccaccio's Decameron)
      7. Pilgrims
      8. Williamsburg in 1726
      9. Norfolk in 1858.
      10. Valley Forge - variolation
      11. William Jenner - vacca-nation
      12. Pasteur - the rise of Germ Theory
      13. Joseph Lister - antisepsis
      14. Robert Koch - postulates
      15. Walter Reed - arbo diseases

   2. Your Microbiological Academic Family Tree
      1. Van Niel - the rise of modern microbiology (vis-a-vis bacteriology)

      2. Are bacteria "living things"?

      3. The Chemistry of Life