Diseases occur in our midst because of many factors and reasons. According to scientific researches and early pioneering efforts conducted on such diseases as cholera and gastro-enteritis by a German, Robert Koch, and the Frenchman, Louis Pasteur, on the microbes, these diseases occur in our midst when the water and food items we consume are contaminated, just as TB, measles, …
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What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger
The scientific approaches to use scorpion venom, E coli, and the common cold as potential cures for cancer are reminiscent of the studies of Louis Pasteur. In studying chicken cholera, Pasteur noted that one of sample cultures of cholera inducing bacteria had spoiled and failed to infect some chickens with a deadly dose of the disease. Read the full article…
Read More »Louis Pasteur Changed Medicine, but was Not a Physician
By 1877 Louis Pasteur was coming to realize that he could no longer stand by and make scientific arguments regarding the research conducted on infectious disease. As a scientist he himself had to demonstrate the pathogenic role of the microbe through physical experimentation. Pasteur had so far proven that the absence of germs prevented disease (asepsis and antisepsis), but not …
Read More »Pasteur’s Veterinary Disciple
Hailed as one of the most distinguished disciples of Louis Pasteur, Dr. Nocard is credited as the first veterinarian in France to apply modern medical concepts to veterinary science, most notably in the area of infectious diseases. Read the full article…
Read More »The epidemic of Savannah
Originally published in “The epidemic of Savannah, 1876: its causes the measures of prevention, adopted by the municipality during the administration of Hon. J. F. Wheaton, Mayor” in 1879 BACTERIUM LINEOLA VIBRIO LINEOLA OF EHRENBERG. Under this designation I understand those rod bacteria, which are similar in all regards to the B. termo, but are much larger, and not only …
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