Louis Pasteur was one of the first scientists to discover the role of microorganisms in disease and how sickness could be prevented by vaccines. At the time, it was widely believed that ...

While working with the French wine industry in 1848, Dr. Louis Pasteur studied tartaric acid, a blackish purple substance that grows on the back of wine barrels. By studying this byproduct of wine ...

That is how the story that was read to me as a young child began. It was about a man named Louis Pasteur who believed in himself and believed in the existence of germs. Because he believed in ...

This 1930s educational film chronicles the advancements in medicine, emphasizing the pivotal role of Louis Pasteur in laying the foundation for modern medical practices. It illustrates the ...

But the virus’s incubation period also made rabies of interest to Pasteur—already a famous scientist in France—as a candidate for a new type of vaccine. “The time from the bite to the sickness was ...

In the duchy of medical history, few achievements are as remarkable as the development of the rabies vaccine by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 1885. This groundbreaking ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany. *Mais oui! It was the Frenchman who landed the first punch. Pasteur was the first to challenge old barmy beliefs, hypothesising that ...

Louis Pasteur’s trepidation at injecting a child with the first rabies vaccine might have reflected his private knowledge of its lack of prior animal testing. A series of rodent experiments showed ...

THIS short biography gives all the essential facts of Pasteur's life and work. Commencing with his early days, the salient features of his researches and discoveries are summarised in ...