If Borders is selected in the draft, she won't be the first woman selected there, either. The Chicago White Sox selected Karey Schueler - daughter of Chisox general manager Ron - with their 43rd pick (of 49 in all) in the 1993 draft. Nor will Borders even be the first woman to play professional baseball.
The criteria for establishing a causative link between a particular microorganism and a particular disease were first proposed by Jacob Henle. true Viruses and bacteria were first cultured in the laboratory at about the same time.
Before French chemist Louis Pasteur began experimenting with bacteria in the 1860s, people did not know what caused disease. He not only discovered that disease came from microorganisms, but he also realized that bacteria could be killed by heat and disinfectant.