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Disciples of Louis Pasteur will be interested in the exhibition which will open at the Academy of Medicine, 19 west Forty-Third Street, on the hundredth anniversary of the scientist’s birth, Dec. 27. This exhibition will include medals which were struck on the various dates of Pasteur’s many discoveries, original manuscripts, and engravings. Books, many of them owned by private collectors, …

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 …

For Centuries It Had Been a Legend That Nothing Could Be Done for Those Affected — Treatment Soon Spread Around the World — Death Rate Here Under 1 Per Cent. By DR. HERMANN M. BIGGS. The prophylactic treatment of rabies was one of the most significant and important discoveries in the whole history of medicine, and most notable contribution to …

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 …

A biography of Louis Pasteur, just completed by his son-in-law, gives the following description of the surroundings of the great French investigator at his daily work: All the animals in the laboratory, from the little white mice hiding under a bundle of cotton-wool to the dogs barking furiously from their railed kennels, are doomed to death. These inhabitants of the …

PARIS. Oct. 1 – The body of Prof. Louis Pasteur was placed in a coffin at his late residence, at Garches, at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Mme. Pasteur wept profusely while the Abbé Angely read prayers over the body. The head of the dead chemist rests upon a white satin pillow. The outer coffin is of deal, and the inner …

In Commemoration of the Scientist’s Seventieth Anniversary The pupils of Louis Pasteur, in commemoration of his seventieth anniversary, have issued a medal made by O. Roty, in which the great scientist appears in left profile, wearing a cape and skull cap. The inscriptions are his name and place and date of birth. The legend is, “For Science, Country, Humanity,” in …

Inspiring Career of a Great and Modest Man of Science PARIS, Sept. 28 — Prof. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished chemist and discoverer of the Pasteur treatment for the cure of rabies, is dead. —– Louis Pasteur was pre-eminently a man of his time, of this very moment. His name and the names of the young physicians who became his pupils …

Harding, Wilson and Taft Send Messages to the Centenary Meeting in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27 — Messages of appreciation of the great humanitarian work accomplished by Louis Pasteur were read here today from President Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Chief Justice Taft and many others at the centenary celebration of the French scientist’s birth. Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, …