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microbiology
Microbiology or bacteriology became a powerful ethological
doctrine spawned from laboratories during the second half
of the 19th Century. The resource provided by physical and
chemical techniques allowed the consolidation of medical microbiology
as a discipline, and its development –the theoretic
practical demonstration of the microbial nature of infection-
quickly translated into the manufacture of remedies and efficient
preventive measures.
A good number of objects in the Museum allow the reconstruction
of the founding of this laboratory discipline, as well as
some examples of microbiological therapeutics generated above
all in relation to 19th-Century cholera. It is about characteristic
laboratory instruments and their evolution through the passage
to the 20th Century –place of research and place of
diagnosis production-, which allowed establishing the methodological
criteria to demonstrate the cause of disease and its experimental
reproduction.
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