1. The Germ Theory and Medicine

5. Pasteur was a strong believer in scientific method.

8. Robert Koch

13. Robert Koch is made to appear as St. George who killed the Dragon. The idea of Koch being compared to a Saint or Knight shows his influence across the world.

14. He is holding a MICROSCOPE which was instrumental in identifying the germs. This shows how the cartoon is linking the importance of technology to the germ theory and the fight against disease

15. The saddle has the word ‘INVESTIGATION’ written on it. This shows the importance of Koch’s scientific method.

16. The serpent symbolizes the TB bacteria that Koch has identified. He tried to find a vaccine for this but failed.

18. Pasteur comes back on the scene I’ll show those Germans how real science is done….Koch may think he is the big man…But I’m the Daddy of Bacteriology!

21. The A-Team Emile Roux Charles Chamberland Alexander Yersin Albert Calmette Okay, they are not quite the A-Team but so long as they have a beard they are in!

23. Now let me explain what happened next before Pasteur gets stuck in. I went on holiday and accidentally left the liquid culture out on my desk… And we are the ones called bird brains…

24. You can’t get the staff these days. He goes on holiday and leaves the germs out because he forgot to inject the chickens! It stood on his bench for a number of days until he got back!

25. Well, when got back I injected the chickens and would you believe it…they did not die. I went to see Pasteur and told him and he told me to give them a fresh batch of the disease.

26. So, here I am, full of chicken cholera not once but twice and I am ALIVE. Yes, I am Superchicken

27. Well, we tried a new batch of chickens with the old germs and gave them a new lots of germs later. They too did not die. To see if they new batch of germs did work we gave them to a third lot – they did die!

28. Well, we tried a new batch of chickens with the old germs and gave them a new lots of germs later. They too did not die. To see if they new batch of germs did work we gave them to a third lot – they did die! A new vaccine…the germs were weakened by exposure to the air. This is the principle of ATTENUATION although I still call it a vaccine!

31. Lads… we’re in big trouble. I have Pasteur, he’s got a needle and I don’t think it’s a vitamin shot!

32. Twenty five are to be vaccinated with the anthrax vaccine made by Roux. Then they are given a fatal dose of anthrax This twenty five are given the fatal dose of anthrax The final are ten are left alone to compare to any survivors! Experiment begins 5 th May 1881

33. ALIVE DEAD DEAD By 2 nd June 1881 We’re alive now why has the farmer got a jar of mint source?

36. It caused a massive row over the research but I carried on. I injected a mixture of dried spine 14 days old, then 13 days old and so on until I could inject an animal with the full disease and it caused no harmful affects.

37. And then, in 1885, Joseph Meister and his mother turned up at Pasteur’s laboratory. He’d been bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur was asked to treat the boy with the new vaccine despite being untested – it worked and the boy was cured.