Germ Theory of Disease

The interest taken by the public in the cases of the Newark children who were bitten less than a week ago by a rabid dog has a pathetic no less than a scientific basis. The happy inspiration of Dr. O’Gorman, the attending Physician, to communicate by cable with the sole living that authority on the subject of hydrophobia, Professor Pasteur, …

Lecture by Dr. Sternberg at the Long Island College Hospital Many members of the Alumni Association of the Long Island College Hospital sat in the lecture room yesterday evening and listened to a lecture delivered by Dr. George M. Sternberg, major and surgeon U.S. Army, on “Hydrophobia.” The lecturer while in France examined closely into Pasteur’s method of inoculation for …

Dr. Paul Gibier, Director of the New York Pasteur Institute Dr. Paul Gibier, pupil of the famous Pasteur and head of the New York institute at which the Pasteur system of treatment for rabies is practiced, is reported to have said that if the young Englishman, George Kendall, who died at the Chambers street hospital of alleged hydrophobia last Friday …

Lecture by Prof. Chandler, of The Board of Health A lecture on “Fermentation, and the Germ Theory of Disease,” was delivered at the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, a few days ago, by Dr. Charles F. Chandler, of the School of Mines, Columbia College, and President of the Board of Health of this City. This was one of a series of lectures …

Remarkable Growth of the New Science of Bacteriology – ORGANISMS WHICH CAUSE DISEASE – Discoveries Made in the Last Thirty Years by Pasteur, Koch, Behring, and Other Explorers. The world’s mightiest hunters in the last thirty years have been those who have pursued infinitesimal game – who have found, caught, killed, or held captive those curious little organisms called microbes …

The discussion over Dr. Koch’s discoveries gives especial interest to any original contributions to the knowledge of microbes. Prof. FRANKLAND’S article in the English Illustrated Magazine is a popular account of some of his own investigations. He found, for instance, that KOCH’s Comma bacillus, which is probably the inducing cause of Asiatic cholera, had its power of growth entirely arrested …

By Walter Noel Hartley, F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry and Lecturer on Chemistry, King’s College, London, New York; D. Appleton & Co. 1876. Although very much may be done by constituted authorities to promote the public health by making and enforcing sanitary regulations, it is unlikely that the desired results can be fully attained before some degree of knowledge of first …

M. Louis Pasteur, an eminent French chemist, announces a triumph of science of great importance to mankind. It is a cure or antidote for hydrophobia. He has been studying and experimenting for four years and now confidently proclaims: “From to-day anybody bitten by a mad dog has only to present himself at the laboratory of the Ecole Normale, and by …

“The large scale production of lager beer was only made possible by the work of Louis Pasteur and Dr. Emil Hansen from the Carlsberg Laboratory in the 1880s.” Read the full article produced by the Carlsberg Laboratory here.