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Game Show Host: Hello and welcome to everyone's favorite game show, *game
show name*. Today's contestant(s), *contestants name(s)*, has just entered our
bonus round and is trying to win our grand prize, Php30,000 in cash and an all new
electron microscope
Okay, *contestants name(s)*. In order to win the grand prize, you must answer all
of the bonus questions correctly. All of the questions are true or false(bluff). If it is a
bluff, you must make the statement true by giving the correct information. If not,
you go home with our consolation prize: a brand new common light microscope.
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Remember. When the buzzer goes off, you must give your answer. Are you ready?
Contestant: I'm ready.
Host: Choose a category!
Contestant: *chooses the category Pre-discovery of Microbiology.
Host: Microbiology started with the invention of the microscope
Contestant: Bluff! *Contestant(s) then explains all of these:*
BCE
Jain Scriptures/Mahavira
Unseen creatures living in earth, water, air, fire
Creatures that pervade every part of the universe including the tissues of plants
and animals
Marcus Terentius Varro: disease-causing minute creatures that floats in the air and
enter the body through the mouth and nose
CE
Ab Al ibn Sn: tuberculosis and other disease might be contagious
Girolamo Fracastoro: Epidemic disease were caused by transferable seed-like
entities that could transmit infection
indirect
direct

without contact over long distances

BCE
4300 BC Babylonians clay tablets have beer recipes
Ancient Egyptians development of methods in embalmment
Ancient Roman Empire develop ideas about contagious particles. They also
perform first recorded acts of biological warfare - they dumped rotting corpses into
the water supplies of their enemies
CE
600 AD Mayans make fermented beverage from cacao (chocolate)
1120 - First restaurant (China)
1348 Black death (killed 1/3 of European population)
1596 First flush toilet

Abiogenesis

Microscope

Pre-discovery of Microbiology (pre-1660s) The Age of Sanitation

Early civilizations (e.g., Crete, India, Pakistan, and Scotland) showed signs of using
toilets and sewers dating back as far as 2800 BC
The first cities to use Water Pipes made of clay were in the Indus Valley of India
around 2700 BC and in the palace of Knossos on Crete around 2000 BC. Metal pipes
were used in Egypt as far back as 2450 BC.
The Romans in 315 AD had public lavatories where people routinely socialized and
conducted business. Rome also built elaborate aqueducts and public fountains and
had an appointed water commissioner who was responsible for seeing that the
water supply was kept clean. Lead was commonly used for Roman pipes and the
subsequent fall of the Roman empire has been related by some to this practice.

The Chinese as early as 589 AD produced toilet paper, while Europeans were using
moss and hay.

Source: http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/cmoyer/zztemp_fire/biol345_S99/lec2.pdf

Pre-microbiology, the possibility that microorganisms exist was discussed for many
centuries before their actual discovery in the 17th century. The existence of unseen
microbiological life was postulated by Jainism, which is based on Mahavira's
teachings as early as 6th century BCE. In his first century book, On
Agriculture, Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro was the first known to suggest
the possibility of disease spreading by yet unseen organisms. In his book, he warns
against locating a homestead near swamps because "there are bred certain minute
creatures that cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body
through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases. " In The Canon of
Medicine (1020), Ab Al ibn Sn (Avicenna) hypothesized that tuberculosis and
other diseases might be contagious. In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro proposed
that epidemic diseases were caused by transferable seed-like entities that could
transmit infection by direct or indirect contact, or even without contact over long
distances. All these early claims about the existence of microorganisms were
speculative and were not based on any data or science. Microorganisms were
neither proven, observed, nor correctly and accurately described until the
17th century. The reason for this was that all these early studies lacked the
microscope.
Source: Boundless. History of Microbiology: Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek, and
Cohn. Boundless Microbiology. Boundless, 21 Jul. 2015. Retrieved 25 Jan. 2016
from https://www.boundless.com/microbiology/textbooks/boundless-microbiologytextbook/introduction-to-microbiology-1/introduction-to-microbiology-18/history-ofmicrobiology-hooke-van-leeuwenhoek-and-cohn-204-8020/

Host: :O

Contestant: Did I win?

Host: Yes
Contestant: Thank you, Thank you.