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History of Microbiology Man kind has always been affected by diseases which were originally believed to be visitations by the gods and meant to punish evil doers. Hippocratus, father of medicine, observed that ill health resulted due to changes in air, winds, water, climate, food, nature of soil and habits of people. Varro (117-26 BC)said a theory that disease was caused by animated particles invisible to naked eye but which were carried in the air through the mouth and nose in...