Support for germ theory

• in the cattle plague of 1866, professor Beale discovered a specific germ that caused the disease
• John Tyndall gave lectures on the work of Pasteur and Koch, supporting their ideas, and often fought with Charles bastion, who was a strong supporter of spontaneous generation
• Roberts and Cheyene promoted the work of Pasteur and Koch, developing a doctors version of germ theory, and translating locus work into English from German