The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-03
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Pasteur's researches. while Of great
scientific interest resulted not cniy in
benefiting humanity by giving US a
more intimate knowledge Of disease
and Its prevention. but being Of such
practical nature. they appealed
strongly TO those people who can see
no good In anything unless It mas dol
lars and cents stamped IN II as a
trade mark. This was first exsmpii-
fed in his work on fermentation which
he started In 1s47. A German firm Of
manufacturing chemists having noted
the proneness to fermentation OF sclu-
lions OF impure commercial tartrate Of
lime. called Pasteur's attention to It
and he conducted a series OF expert
ments following Spallanzani and
Schulze. The result was that he proved
the existence OF certain cells during
the process. This work was EXTENDED
to other phenomena OF fermentation.
Alcoholic butyric. acetic and tactic. IN
der all possible conditions of temporal
ture and in the presence and in the
absence OF air. He showed that each
was due to a specific organism and,
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who still adhered to the doctrine Of
the spontaneous generation OF the low
est forms of life from dead organic
matter. Pasteur falsiied his cbser-
vations and revolutionlzed scientific
/ teachings. He also proved the same to
be true of putrefaction thus giving
Semmelweiss and Lister the underly-
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to-day; In other words-antisepsis.
The result of his studies IN sermen-
tation. apart from their value 10 man
kind. was to make good to France
an annual loss of wine represented by
one-fourth of the total guam lily rro-
duced or. in round figures. about s2b.-
100000.
revenue from 10000. 900 francs TO $780,
900 francs yearly. prize II half a mill
lion francs offered by the government
being the inducement. Here again he
proved the existence OF a parasite,
showed the method OF inferior from
worm to worm Of the disease pebrine
as 1t was called. and suggested moth
{ DDS OF prevention. The disease after a
time was banished. resulting In great
benefit TO the growers and increased
revenues TO the state.
Pasteur Is known best. however. for
his work on hydrophobia. in attempt
ing to prevent the development OF dis
In 1865 Pasteur was requested by
Dumas to investigate the silk worm
disease which had reduced the state
ease through the bites OF lower ami
mails. His method was the inoculation
OF rabbits by extracts OF nerve sub
stance obtained from rabld animals.
used In the same manner as culture
fluids. causing the production Of the
| disease which In rabbits assumes a
paralytic or painless type. The spinal
cords OF these animals were again used
until a virus OF proper strength was
obtained. this constituting the protect
ing fluid. He started with very weak
solutions for treating man. gradually
increasing them until the person was
protected or. al they term II. rendered
immune. This underlying principle
has been used by others IN various
ways, so that to-day we hear OF vac
cines, toxines, and. lately. anti-toxines.
the latter being taken up by Pasteur
after DIR. Behring of Germany had for
INFLATED his theory.
What f. the result Of hts work IN by
drophobia? There Is no doubt In the
minds OF conservative medical men
that 1t has resulted In good He has
been villified by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and by medical men. accused OF wan
tonly destroying life. but an examina-
ton OF statistics of persons treated by
Pasteur's methods and those not SO
treated. show an undoubted lessened
mortality rate In favor OF his Insti-
tutes.
Pasteur was always a Frenchman
HIS patriotism impelled him TO return
to the authorities at Bonn the diploma
honorarily conferred upon him In 1865.
after the Franco-Prussian war. but he
also was a true scientist and had the
greatest admiration for Robert Koch.
his German contemporary. II 10 told
of him that when he received the news
OF the United States naming the first
steamer in the quarantine service the
Louis Pasteur. he made a simple bow
OF acknowledgment. but when he heard
the second was named the Robert
Koch and the third and fourth after
two OF our own experimentalists. welch
and Sternberg. he at once became ami
mated, expressing his satisfaction with
much volubility.
Pasteur is dead. but his work will
be carried on by his faithful disciples.
OF these latter DR.. Maurice dc Fieury
writes IN the Figaro: First and tore
most - NJ. Ducluax. the actual sub
director OF the Institute. who wiz sue
coed Pasteur and who In turn win be
succeeded by Roux. With an incom-
parable technician like Roux; a search
err OF genius like Metchnikoff: accom-
pllshed bacteriolosists like Chantem
esse. Nocard. Charm and others:
with Yersin: with DIR. Albert Cal
mette. who Is seeking the vac
cine OF the venom Of ser
pents: with Nicolle. who ~ direct
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