Word: pasteur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisville, Ky., 15 families were registered last week with the public health department as having one or more members taking the Pasteur treatment to immunize them against rabies (hydrophobia) caught, it was feared, from the bites of rabid dogs. Private physicians were treating others...
...honor Pasteur Institutes have been established over the whole world. The latest is at Bangkok, where snake serum is being developed. There was even a play written last year to praise his life...
...Louis Pasteur (1822-95) originated the cure for incipient hydrophobia in humans. He had confirmed positively that germs cause disease and that some might be killed by heat. This is the principle upon which milk is pasteurized, an important point. But of far greater importance in medicine is another fact that Louis Pasteur verified - many diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this...
...being "highly shocked," but no more shocked than other squeamish persons had been at Dr. Elie Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...
...Charles Smith of Manhattan, president of an Association for the Advancement of Atheism, found his way into public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...