Select the correct one. a) Tuberculosis i) Louis Pasteur b) Antiseptic ii) Robert Koch c) Penicillin iii) Joseph Lister d) Anthrax iv) Alexandar Flemming

Select the correct one. a) Tuberculosis i) Louis Pasteur b) Antiseptic ii) Robert Koch c) Penicillin iii) Joseph Lister d) Anthrax iv) Alexandar Flemming Correct Answer (a)-(ii), (b)-(iii), (c)-(iv), (d)-(i)

Explanation:

  • German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910), whose laboratory is shown here, discovered the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
  • Antiseptics were used for the first time by Doctor Joseph Lister, at the time a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, Scotland. 
  • Penicillin was discovered in 1928 by Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming as a crude extract of P. Rubens. 
  • In 1881, Louis Pasteur performed a famous public experiment in which he injected one group of animals with an anthrax vaccine.

So, the correct match is as:

a) Tuberculosis ii) Robert Koch
b) Antiseptic iii) Joseph Lister
c) Penicillin iv) Alexander Flemming
d) Anthrax i) Louis Pasteur

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