—The biography of Charles Darwin’s cousin allows ‘uncomfortable’ episodes in the history of biology to be explored.— Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a multifaceted author, a polymatist who wrote on many topics, including meteorology, anthropology,...
—A journey through the origins of biology as a scientific discipline beyond myths and ‘founding fathers’.— Throughout the nineteenth century, there was an entire series of events that hastened the establishment of biology as an academic discipline....
—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the study of microorganisms was transformed into a key discipline for the control and eradication of infectious diseases.— Ideas about the etiology of infectious diseases changed with the evolution of...
—How we learned to take aim in a chemical sense in the history of medicine.— The discovery that specific microorganisms were responsible for infectious diseases led to the search for therapeutic substances to eliminate them. Serotherapy was used, by...
—A biography to reflect in the importance of hygiene for health.— Until the mid-nineteenth century, one of the main complications after childbirth was called postpartum sepsis or postpartum infection. Once the placenta is detached, the vessels in...
—In the second half of the nineteenth century, the bacteriological laboratory was transformed into a new setting for diagnosing, preventing and treating infectious diseases.— The verification that microscopic living things were the origin of...
