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, …

The details of the negotiations that led recently to the purchase for presentation to the French Nation of the birthplace of Louis Pasteur, at Dole, France, through a gift of John D. Rockefeller, have just become public. A committee had been formed in France under M. Pieyre, Mayor of Dole, to raise a sum of money to buy the house …

Paris, Sept. 20, 1895 — The following information concerning the closing hours of Prof. Pasteur’s life has been obtained by the correspondent of The United Press, who has just returned from Villeneuve: Prof. Pasteur’s condition became seriously worse on the evening of Friday last. Albuminuria was observed, the heart became very weak, and painful and violent spasms became frequent. About …

Louis Pasteur’s first discovery and the point of embarkation for everything to follow in his prodigious carrer, including stereochemistry, bio-optical chemistry, fermentation, germ theory, and of course, the separation between living and non-living processes.