The development of Germ Theory and the ability to see and treat germs transformed medicine from witchcraft to the modern era.

“the um the the you know the introduction of of uh of being able to ultimately see germs um and connect germ Theory with uh with human disease um as you say it took medicine from witchcraft to the modern era um you know think of any procedure childbirth um uh any surgical procedure anything that we do and think of the effect of antibiotics on that procedure and think of how important it is that that these antibiotics are now available and and the life saved I mean just childbirth Alone um uh the the capacity of saving lives to antibiotics has been enormous and has just really been transformative in terms of you know again as you say moving medicine from from Witchcraft and and and that's because what's astonishing in in in this in the piece that I write about microbial uh biology and the discovery of microbes Peter is that microbes was were imagined in the abstract uh long before they were seen”

“think of any procedure childbirth uh any surgical procedure anything that we do and think of the effect of antibiotics on that procedure and think of how important it is that that these antibiotics are now available and the life saved I mean just childbirth Alone uh the the capacity of saving lives to antibiotics has been enormous”