Word: pasteurization
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...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...
...Vallery-Radot (Pasteur's son-in-law), Life of Pasteur (Paris, 1900; London and New York, 1911). Translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. The standard biography...
...mile Duclaux, Pasteur: the History of a Mind. (Paris, 1895; Phila- delphia, 1920). Translated by Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges. A fascinating account of his scientific development...
...Descours, Pasteur and His Work. (London and New York, 1922). Translated by A. F. and B. H. Wedd. The latest book on Pasteur...