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Published online 9 October 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031006-9
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Pasteur knocked off pedestal?
Scottish medic may have cured bacterial disease 20 years earlier than Frenchman.
An Edinburgh surgeon was the first person to recognize and cure a bacterial infection, a British biologist is claiming1.
John Goodsir realized that microbes make people sick in 1842 - nearly 20 years before Louis Pasteur's breakthroughs in microbiology, argues Milton Wainwright of the University of Sheffield.
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