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by FRANCIS E. BENZ Louis read and defended his essays on August 23, 1847, and although they were not enthusiastically received by the judges, yet he was successful in his presentation. But the doctor s degree was only a milepost at which Louis Pasteur did not pause. He had had a letter from his father saying: “We cannot judge of …

Originally published in the Los Angeles Time on March 29, 1903 Rather more than a century ago, a very young physician thought to test a very old folk remedy against the greatest scourge of that day – smallpox. His method, slightly elaborated, has served to banish that disease from cleanly lands. But it was merely a chance success won in …

The French Scientist Succumbs to a Series of Paralytic Strokes – His Labors in the Field of Chemistry and Bacteriology Brought Him Fame. PARIS, Sept. 28. – (By Atlantic Cable.) Prof. Louis Pasteur, the eminent bacteriologist, died at 5 o’clock this evening at Garches, near St. Clous, in the environs of this city. Prof. Pasteur had suffered from paralysis for …

Louis Pasteur, a French chemist, is the man of all others to whom the civilized world today owes its health and its absolute certainly that the great epidemics of the past-cholera, the plague, ship fever (smallpox was conquered by an earlier genius) cannot recur. It is he who discovered the microparasitic origin of disease, or the germ theory, as it …

PARIS, Aug. 14 – In the early hours of the forenoon, day after day, a crowd of 150 persons and upward assemble in the waiting-room, a spacious hall papered in dark green and wainscoted in pale oak – of Dr. Pasteur’s pavilion, which is a one-story, detached house, standing at right angles to the main building of the Ecole Normale …

PARIS, Dec. 25 — The centenary of the birth of Louis Pasteur was observed today by the Academy of Medicine with exercises in honor of the world-famous chemist and biologist, one of the academy’s most illustrous members. Pasteur was elected to the academy in 1873 as a free associate, not being eligible to regular membership as he was neither a …

Few names of purely scientific men are so widely known among people of all classes as that of Louis Pasteur; few men have been able to accomplish so much to increase material prosperity and at the same time be the means of warding off dangerous and widely fatal diseases from animals and men, and he stands almost, if not quite, …

Born in the city of Mézières (Champagn-Ardennes Province) adjacent to Belgium. The family traces back to Château-Regnault, the name being eminent in France. His father was a primary school teacher, and some time inspector of primary education. We have every reason to believe that he pushed his son to study. The young Jules frequented the Collège de Charleville from an …

Born in Montpellier (Languedoc-Roussillon Province), to extremely poor parents, young Jérôme was adopted by his godmother who was better able to provide a proper education. This circumstance must have affected him profoundly because he would remain frugal his whole life. When traveling, he carried nothing but an extra shirt, tucked into his coat pocket. He was an open minded, generous …

Translation: H.C.Ernst, Germ Theory And Its Applications To Medicine And Surgery 1 The Sciences gain by mutual support. When, as the result of my first communications on the fermentations in 1857-1858, it appeared that the ferments, properly so-called, are living beings, that the germs of microscopic organisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water; …