Word: pasteur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip in France during the celebration of the Pasteur Centenary at Strassbourg has been arranged for members of the American medical profession, under the patronage of the French ministries of public works and public instruction. Besides Paris, Strasbourg, and the battlefields, the joyriding doctors will visit Besancon, Dôle, Arbois, towns connected with Pasteur's early life, and the famous thermal baths at Evian, Aix, Vichy...
...United States should have a law similar to the one in Austria which gives this power to experts of that country who are studying how to combat disease. Our hands will remain tied until we are allowed the same liberty." It was through the performing of innumerable autopsies that Pasteur came to discover his treatment for rabies. He went to morgues and studied-he always had an autopsy of patients of his who died, and by studying every condition he was able to present medical science with one of the greatest discoveries of all time. " I have been working...
...Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine, brought scorn upon himself from the older members of the French Academy of Medicine when he explained to them the discoveries he had made through his microscope. Nevertheless he continued his experiments for fifteen years and proved his theories so successfully by actual cures that at another meeting of the Academy he was heaped with honors. The modern physician is a descendant of Pasteur. The old untidy family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them...
...comedy would be, for although the interest centers about an actual historical figure in the act of accomplishing an undertaking of historic importance, the material has been so treated that the result frequently resembles more the conventional melodrama or detective play than such historical dramas as "Abraham Lincoln or "Pasteur...
...Descours, Pasteur and His Work. (London and New York, 1922). Translated by A. F. and B. H. Wedd. The latest book on Pasteur...