Tag Archives: Louis Pasteur

Customized stem cells to help treat leukemia?

Two researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the National Center for Scientific Research working in the Institut Pasteur Macrophages and Development of Immunity Unit have just proved that hematopoietic stem cells, which produce blood cells throughout the life of each individual, are formed from the cells of the embryo’s aortic wall. Read the Full Article

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Mémoire sur la relation qui peur exister entre la forme cristallines et la composition chimique, et sur la cause de la polarisation rotatoire

par Louis Pasteur (1848) (Commissaires, MM. Biot, Regnault, Babinet, Balard.) Si l’on compare les formes cristallines de tous les tartrates quels qu’ils soient, y compris les émétiques, on s’apercevra sans peine que dans tontes ces formes plusieurs facettes se retrouvent inclinées entre elles de la même manière. En plaçant toutes ces formes les unes auprès des autres, on aura une …

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On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

Harvard Classics

Taken from the publication, “On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery.” The Harvard Classics.1909–14.” IN THE COURSE of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in relation to it, I arrived several years ago at the conclusion that the essential cause of suppuration in wounds is decomposition brought …

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Cowslip or Clary Wine, No. 2

Pre-Pasteur Wine Recipes

The best method of making these wines is to put in the pips dry, when the fermentation of the wine has subsided. This method is preferred for two reasons: first, it may be performed at any time of the year when lemons are cheapest, and when other wine is making; second, all waste of the pips is avoided. Being light, …

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How to Make Cowslip Wine

Pre-Pasteur Wine Recipes

To three gallons of water put seven pounds of sugar; stir it well together, and beat the whites of ten eggs very well, and mix with the liquor, and make it boil as fast as possible. Skim it well, and let it continue boiling two hours; then strain it through a hair sieve, and set it a cooling, and when …

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Cock Ale

Take five gallons of ale, and a large cock, the older the better. Parboil the cock, flay him, and stamp him in a stone mortar till his bones are broken (you must craw and gut him when you flay him), then put the cock into one quart of sack, and put to it one and one-half pounds of raisins and …

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How to Make Clover Wine

Pre-Pasteur Wine Recipes

Three quarts blossoms, four quarts boiling water; let stand three days. Drain, and to the flower heads add three more quarts of water and peel of one lemon. Boil fifteen minutes, drain, and add to other juice. TO every quart, add one pound of sugar; ferment with one cup of yeast. Keep in warm room three weeks, then bottle.

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Fine Clary Wine

To five gallons of water put twelve and one-half pounds of sugar, and the whites of six eggs well beaten. Set it over the fire, and let it boil gently near an hour; skim it clean and put it in a tub, and when it is near cold, then put into the vessel you keep it in about half a …

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Clary Wine

Pre-Pasteur Wine Recipes

Take twelve pounds of Malaga raisins, pick them and chop them very small, put them in a tub, and to each pound one-half pint of water. Let them steep ten or eleven days, stirring it twice every day; you must keep it covered close all the while. Then strain it off, and put it into a vessel, and about one-quarter …

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Cider Wine

Let the new cider from sour apples (ripe, sound fruit preferred) ferment from one to three weeks, as the weather is warm or cool. When it has attained to a lively fermentation, add to each gallon, according to its acidity, from one-half pound to two pounds of white crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment until it possesses precisely the …

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