Lessons to learn for microscopy of Borrelia

Lessons to learn for microscopy of Borrelia - 'All subsequent experiments observing the correlation of the bacteria and various diseases, as well as the experiments finding that eradicating the bacteria can cure diseases such as gastritis and ulcers, used microscopes to determine the presence or absence of bacteria in the gastric biopsies. Without microscopes, bacteria would never have been discovered, and the bacterial theory of ulcers would never have been developed and accepted.'

Ulcers.and.Bacteria.II

cogsci.uwaterloo.ca

My description of the cognitive processes involved in the discovery, development, and acceptance of the bacterial theory of ulcers might have left the impression that science is all in the mind (Thagard, forthcoming-b). But only part of the story of the bacterial theory of ulcers is psychological. T...