Originally found in American Public Journal – March 1953 – Motion Picture Reviews A recreation of this health hero’s contributions to medical knowledge. Produced by Sterling Films. 16 mm., black and white, sound, 28 minutes. For purchase from the producer at $100. Address them at 316 West 57th Street, New York 19, N. Y. Consult rental libraries for rental terms. …
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Louis Pasteur: Achievements and Disappointments, 1861
Department of Bacteriology, College of Medicine, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa After considering various subjects for this occasion, I decided, because it is the 100th Anniversary of some of Louis Pasteur’s most important research and publications, to pay respect to him and, as Emil Roux stated, “relate what nobody should be ignorant of in Pasteur’s life, and what …
Read More »Institutional Investing, Along Central Park West
There was once a five-story apartmentlike building at Central Park West and 97th Street, built in 1893 with the approval of Louis Pasteur as a center for research on rabies, tetanus and other diseases. Read the full article…
Read More »Big Pharma and Vaccines: An Uneasy Alliance, According to Adel Mahmoud
While scientists like Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur made significant strides in understanding and using vaccines in the 18th and 19th centuries, Mr. Mahmoud reported that 20th century strides in vaccines — most notably the success of the polio vaccine — are considered by public health policy-makers to be the pre-eminent health achievement of the 20th century. Read the full …
Read More »Open Letter to Robert Koch
Translated by Pierre Beaudry Pasteur, Louis. Correspondance : 1840-1895 / de Pasteur. Tome III / réunie Open letter to Robert Koch, December 25, 1882. Sir, In 1881, you have attacked my works too quickly and without due consideration, in your first volume of the German Imperial Health Office published, in Geneva on September 5, 1882, and, meanwhile, I have refuted …
Read More »Vietnam: With Rabies Deaths on the Rise, a Menu Item Gets a Closer Look
Many Vietnamese refuse to eat vaccinated dogs, said Merritt Clifton, editor of Animal People, an animal protection magazine, because the only vaccines locally available are grown in sheep brains using an outdated method invented by Louis Pasteur. If improperly stored, those vaccines can give rabies to the dog, and in turn to the diner. Read the full article…
Read More »Probiotics – What do we really know?
These bacteria had been discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1857, isolated by Lister from rancid milk in 1878 and already used by Tissier in Paris for the relief of intestinal problems by him in 1906. This was the same Tissier who discovered the bifidobacterium spp in 1889. Read the full article…
Read More »Hospitals not the only superbug source
Louis Pasteur once observed that “we drink 90 per cent of our illnesses.” The beach is a potent reservoir for that eventuality. Read the full article…
Read More »Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science
Excerpt from Pasteur biography by René Dubos. Download the complete book at the end of this article. CHAPTER I The Wonderful Century Louis PASTEUR was born on December 27, 1822, at Dôle in the eastern part of France, where his father owned and managed a small tannery. When he died on September 28, 1895, at Villeneuve l’Etang near Paris, his …
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Originally printed in the American Druggist: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Practical Pharmacy in 1892 On Tuesday, Dec. 27th, M. Louis Pasteur, the distinguished biologist and chemist, celebrated his seventieth birthday at his home in Paris. The occasion was one of great pomp, undisturbed by the political scandals of the hour. M. Pasteur was given a magnificent ovation. The famous …
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