When salaried employees take too much sick time and your company doesnât have a fixed policy, your arms are tied. Thereâs not much you can do but sit back and watch your employee call in sick whenever they want. The reason for this is that salaried employees are protected in most cases from pay deductions.
However, the first attempts to scientifically measure skull shape and its alleged relation to character were performed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), who is considered the founding father of phrenology. Gall was one of the first to consider the brain to be the source of all mental activity.
Ferdinand Cohn was also the first to formulate a scheme for the taxonomic classification of bacteria. Louis Pasteur (1822â1895) and Robert Koch (1843â1910) were contemporaries of Cohnâs and are often considered to be the founders of medical microbiology. Pasteur is most famous for his series of experiments designed to disprove the then widely held theory of spontaneous generation, thereby solidifying microbiologyâs identity as a biological science.