The badger hair topic

hunnymonster said:
chrisbell said:
LOL, well done Hm!
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One thing though... you said something about germ theory predating Pasteur by 12 years in 1950... wasn't Pasteur rather pushing up daisies by then? (He may even have stopped pushing, having been planted so long)
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Sorry HM - typo - should have been 1850. GDCarrington's link was to a political article about US Congressmen and anthrax, written during the post-9/11 anthrax scare. In article claimed that the anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, was isolated in 1850, to which I replied that it seemed unlikely given that it wasn't until 1862 that Pasteur demonstrated the germ theory of disease in his famous experiment using sealed and unsealed glass flasks of "broth"
 
chrisbell said:
Sorry HM - typo - should have been 1850. GDCarrington's link was to a political article about US Congressmen and anthrax, written during the post-9/11 anthrax scare. In article claimed that the anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, was isolated in 1850, to which I replied that it seemed unlikely given that it wasn't until 1862 that Pasteur demonstrated the germ theory of disease in his famous experiment using sealed and unsealed glass flasks of "broth"
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The article confused the anthrax bacterium being observed with it being isolated.

Casimir Davaine, a French physician, first observed the anthrax bacterium in the blood of a sheep that had died from anthrax in 1850. A lot of the work that Pasteur subsequently undertook built upon observations made by Davaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Davaine#cite_note-0

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033586/pdf/medhist00151-0053.pdf
 
Yellow Jim said:
chrisbell said:
Sorry HM - typo - should have been 1850. GDCarrington's link was to a political article about US Congressmen and anthrax, written during the post-9/11 anthrax scare. In article claimed that the anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, was isolated in 1850, to which I replied that it seemed unlikely given that it wasn't until 1862 that Pasteur demonstrated the germ theory of disease in his famous experiment using sealed and unsealed glass flasks of "broth"
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The article confused the anthrax bacterium being observed with it being isolated.

Casimir Davaine, a French physician, first observed the anthrax bacterium in the blood of a sheep that had died from anthrax in 1850. A lot of the work that Pasteur subsequently undertook built upon observations made by Davaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Davaine#cite_note-0

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033586/pdf/medhist00151-0053.pdf
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Thanks Jim - I was thinking that it couldn't have been associated with the understanding of the observed organism being the causative agent of the disease as the link hadn't yet been proven. Let's consider that the miasma theory was still popular then. I've definitely learned something, though - thanks!
 
chrisbell said:
Yellow Jim said:
chrisbell said:
Sorry HM - typo - should have been 1850. GDCarrington's link was to a political article about US Congressmen and anthrax, written during the post-9/11 anthrax scare. In article claimed that the anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, was isolated in 1850, to which I replied that it seemed unlikely given that it wasn't until 1862 that Pasteur demonstrated the germ theory of disease in his famous experiment using sealed and unsealed glass flasks of "broth"
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The article confused the anthrax bacterium being observed with it being isolated.

Casimir Davaine, a French physician, first observed the anthrax bacterium in the blood of a sheep that had died from anthrax in 1850. A lot of the work that Pasteur subsequently undertook built upon observations made by Davaine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Davaine#cite_note-0

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033586/pdf/medhist00151-0053.pdf
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Thanks Jim - I was thinking that it couldn't have been associated with the understanding of the observed organism being the causative agent of the disease as the link hadn't yet been proven. Let's consider that the miasma theory was still popular then. I've definitely learned something, though - thanks!
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My Brain hurts.


Dave.
 
Well, since we are discussing this article again. Here is the link.

http://uschscapitolhistory.uschs.org/articles/images/uschs_dome-wallace.pdf

What is interesting is how the Badger Brush manufacturers immediately began using the word "Sterilized" on their brushes to capitalize on the Anthrax scare.
 
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