Among the arrivals from Europe by the steamship Etruria yesterday was Dr. Valentine Mott, who spent a week or more with M. Pasteur. Dr. Mott brought with him a memento of his visit to the Paris physician in the shape of a rabbit which was inoculated with rabies virus on the day he left Paris. He was too tired yesterday …
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Indian Snake Bites and Pasteur
From The Westminster Gazette The next field in which M. Pasteur and his disciples hope to achieve great results is that covered by snake bites in India. Prof. Percy Frankland, in his address on Pasteur’s work to the British Association yesterday, referred to this subject as follows: “The possibilities of securing protection by means of the serum of immunized animals …
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Originally published in the Los Angeles Time on March 29, 1903 Rather more than a century ago, a very young physician thought to test a very old folk remedy against the greatest scourge of that day – smallpox. His method, slightly elaborated, has served to banish that disease from cleanly lands. But it was merely a chance success won in …
Read More »Microbes of Death: Prof. Louis Pasteur Is No More of This World
The French Scientist Succumbs to a Series of Paralytic Strokes – His Labors in the Field of Chemistry and Bacteriology Brought Him Fame. PARIS, Sept. 28. – (By Atlantic Cable.) Prof. Louis Pasteur, the eminent bacteriologist, died at 5 o’clock this evening at Garches, near St. Clous, in the environs of this city. Prof. Pasteur had suffered from paralysis for …
Read More »The Saving Germ Discovery: Credit Due to Pasteur for Showing How to Prevent Ravages of Disease
Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, is the man of all others to whom the civilized world today owes its health and its absolute certainly that the great epidemics of the past-cholera, the plague, ship fever (smallpox was conquered by an earlier genius) cannot recur. It is he who discovered the microparasitic origin of disease, or the germ theory, as it …
Read More »Pasteur’s Pavilion: The Office and Home of the Famous Healer
PARIS, Aug. 14 – In the early hours of the forenoon, day after day, a crowd of 150 persons and upward assemble in the waiting-room, a spacious hall papered in dark green and wainscoted in pale oak – of Dr. Pasteur’s pavilion, which is a one-story, detached house, standing at right angles to the main building of the Ecole Normale …
Read More »Louis Pasteur is Honored by Paris Savants
PARIS, Dec. 25 — The centenary of the birth of Louis Pasteur was observed today by the Academy of Medicine with exercises in honor of the world-famous chemist and biologist, one of the academy’s most illustrous members. Pasteur was elected to the academy in 1873 as a free associate, not being eligible to regular membership as he was neither a …
Read More »A Life of Pasteur: The Manner of Man He Was, and the Results He Accomplished
Few names of purely scientific men are so widely known among people of all classes as that of Louis Pasteur; few men have been able to accomplish so much to increase material prosperity and at the same time be the means of warding off dangerous and widely fatal diseases from animals and men, and he stands almost, if not quite, …
Read More »Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory And Its Applications To Medicine And Surgery
Translation: H.C.Ernst, Germ Theory And Its Applications To Medicine And Surgery 1 The Sciences gain by mutual support. When, as the result of my first communications on the fermentations in 1857-1858, it appeared that the ferments, properly so-called, are living beings, that the germs of microscopic organisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water; …
Read More »Transcript of a Discussion Regarding the Implementation of Pasteur’s Cure for Hydrophobia in Britain
PUBLIC HEALTH—M. PASTEUR’S TREATMENT OF HYDROPHOBIA.HC Deb 11 March 1886 vol 303 cc435-6 435 SIR HENRY ROSCOE (Manchester, S.): Asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, in view of the success said to have attended Pasteur’s treatment for hydrophobia by inoculation, he will consider the propriety of appointing a Committee, consisting of about six persons eminent in medicine …
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