... effect of boiling food, placing it in a vacuum, and exposing it to air, and then recording the results he obtained. Pasteur's idea of the new germ theory' helped others, for example Robert Koch, to take the final step in identifying germs which caused certain diseases. Pasteur himself was not a doctor, and did not prove that germs caused diseases in humans. When ... work of Koch and Pasteur had much to do with the development of new vaccines. This, in turn, led onto new and better health for everyone, and other ideas, for example the production of anti-toxins, to be developed. ...

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... a drug is safe because it has been tested on animals?" Anti Animal Cruelty's website said there were several instances where drug testing on animals had proved inconclusive, even dangerous. For example, Thalidomide was marketed as a safe tranquilliser for pregnant women after years of animal testing, yet resulted in more than 10,000 grossly deformed human babies worldwide. Aspirin, which can be ... ...

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... a few days, they become filled with living microorganisms. These organisms come from a biological cause, not a generational development. The mice that came out of the rags in the barn was an example of a psychological explanation for reproduction and could not be explained in any other logical way according to the people of the 1600-1700's. ...

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... a few days, they become filled with living microorganisms. These organisms come from a biological cause, not a generational development. The mice that came out of the rags in the barn was an example of a psychological explanation for reproduction and could not be explained in any other logical way according to the people of the 1600-1700's. ...

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... definitions, which render inspiration as an impassive cognitive process. Before investigating the inspiration process according to psychology, it is interesting to note some earlier descriptions of the phenomenon. Socrates, for example, maintained that inspired thoughts originate with the gods, ideas coming not when a person is rational, but when someone is "beside himself". (Cave, 2000) The origin of the word itself, like ... ...

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