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Louis Pasteur.                                Edward Jenner (1749 –                          Sir. William Harvey

                                                           1823).

         A French scientist re-                                                                       was an English scientist.

         nowned for his discov-                        An English country doc-                        He was the first scientist

         eries of the principles of                    tor who introduced the                         to discover that blood
         vaccination, microbial                        immunization vaccine                           circulates around the


         fermentation and pas-                         for smallpox.                                  body
         teurization. He discov-

         ered that fermentation,

         decay and various dis-

         eases are caused by bac-                                                                  Sir Ronald Ross

         teria. He also discovered

         that milk goes bad be-                                                                    was a British medical

         cause of germs. He de-                                                                    doctor. He was the first

         veloped the methods of                                                                    to discover the cause of

         immunizing against an-                                                                    malaria

         thrax and rabies.
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