April 14, 2023
Louis Pasteur devised pasteurization (the heating of a fluid to kill microbes) to keep French wines and beer from becoming contaminated. Later the process was applied to milk.
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What Was Life Like Before We Knew About Germs?
“It was the summer of 1880. It was August. It stank to high heaven. The sewers had been uncorked, and all the filth came out in a flood. All manner of waste was on display.” So reads an article in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro. Purporting to be written by novelist and critic Émile Zola
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