The term is derived from the Latin “rabies” meaning “madness”. All human cases of rabies were fatal until a vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux. Treatment after exposure, known as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), is highly successful. A recombinant vaccine called V-RG has been successfully used to prevent outbreaks of rabies in wildlife. Currently pre-exposure immunization …

Timeline of Historical Events Involving Louis Pasteur 1822 Louis Pasteur born at 2 a.m. in Dole (Jura), as the third child of Jean-Joseph Pasteur and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui. 1823 Louis Pasteur is baptized. 1825 Birth of Louis Pasteur’s sister, Josephine. 1826 The Pasteur family moves to Marnoz (Jura), where Jean-Joseph rents a tannery. Birth of Clermont-Ferrand of Marie Laurent, Pasteur’s future …

Comptes Rendus 52, 1260 (1861) [as translated and excerpted in Mikulás Teich, A Documentary History of Biochemistry, 1770-1940 (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992)] … It results from this that beer yeast has two ways of living, essentially distinct. Free oxygen gas can be totally absent, or it can be present in any volume whatever. In the second case …

Micro-organsims were first discovered about 250 years ago. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch civil servant, learned how to make excellent lenses from which he also built some of the earliest microscopes. Leeuwenhoek used his microscope to look at lots of different things, including drops of water. When he looked at water drops magnified many times, he saw bacteria swimming …

By the end of the nineteenth century, after Louis Pasteur had discovered sodium hypochlorite’s potent effectiveness against disease-causing bacteria, it became widely used as a disinfectant. Read Full Article

On his way to achieving a new type of national heroism, Pasteur became the first person to reduce the virulence of micro-organisms, and the first exponent of two new subjects: microbiology (the study of microbes) and immunology (the study of resistance to infections). Read Full Article

It wasn’t until the investigations of Louis Pasteur some 150 years ago that we began to understand the nature of the leavening process. Read Full Article

Description: This film documents the influence of the two pioneers of bacteriology, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. Length: 15:18 Originally Aired: January 1, 1990 This video is no longer available.

Brewing tanks patented by Louis Pasteur on January 28, 1873 Germ Theory In a simple experiment of drawing through an aspirator a current of outside air through a tube containing a little plug of cotton wool, Pasteur demonstrated that, as the current passed it deposited on this sort of filter some of the solid corpuscles contained in the air. After …

But within a few years of publishing his research on the physics of light, French chemist Louis Pasteur applied the work to establish the germ theory of disease, one of the most important advances in biological science. Read Full Article