Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-29

Pasteur. He was attracting attention
as young chemist in Paris when q
disease spread amons the SIX worms s.
stroyed the industry; pasteur was was
and day with the silk worms, studying
the disease under every possible con
and devised its determination. Ever
since then the silk industry has four
, ished.
or bacon for breakfast. or who likes
bit of fat pork with his beans on Sat
urday night. is debtor to Pasteur::
Gradually increasing outbreaks cI
hog.-cholera were making the raising
cialIy the case where more than
very few hogs ran together The De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing,
ton estimated that 100000 hogs died
of cholera in this country in the year
in France. The French minister OF
agriculture appealed to Pasteur. With
two trained assistants he devoted
himself to the swine as he had done
1882 they discovered the vaccine that
has practically eradicatcd hog cholera;
In 1921 Maine creameries shipped
Boeton Fails ws ef made mk and possSe
| Louis Pasteur, who devised the pro-
cess Of "pasteurizing" milk. With
out this process II would hardly be
practical to retail Maine milk in Bos-
ton in the summer particularly.
Pasteur demonstrated that the air
which ordinarily surrounds us is full
of germs, and that it is these germs
which make our food sour and spoil.
stance, thoroughly sterilized by heat.
and kept sealed from the air would
| keep indefinitely. This placed the
| canning Of fruit, vegetables and meat
This one contribution is of boundless
| significance in modern industry.
Pasteur was a chemist and not
physician. Yet his contributions to
was elected to the French Academy of
Medicine. Before his day surgeons
were considered successful if one-half
their patients lived after the ampu-
tatlon OF leg or arm. lie Fort. a
| French surgeon, won fame by losing
not more than one in four of his am
putation cases Joseph Lister of Edin-
burgh and London; one Of the most ia
was among the first to adopt the re
suits of Pasteur's demonstrations
Lister saved "a out of the first 40 am
putation cases undcr the new antisep-
tic system M, WI WHICH bears the name
of Pasteurs 10th birthday in the am
phitheatre of the Sorbonne. Lister said.
truly there does not exist in the
| WnOle world an individual to WhOm
Medical Science owes more tnan TO
| YOU"
Probably. Pasteur's work is most ia
| nous in this country on account of his
| successful treatment of u bieS. Before
| Pasteur, to be bitten by rabid dog
meant almost certain horrible death.
The "Pasteur Treatment" thoroughly
| and promptly used more certainly
| prevents harm.
When As years of age Pasteur was
! stricken with apoploxy. His left side
was paralyzed From This he never
| fully recovered. Yet in three months
he was again in his laboratory. and
| spent 80 strenuous years under this
| physical handicap.
Pasteur always took steps to make
certain that the public received the
| benefit of his discoveries, rather than
some clever manufacturer Napoleon
III asked him how it was he reaped no
profit from discoveries that were en-
riching the world. Pasteur replied,
In France Scientists would think
themselves dishonored by acting in
such way" DR.. l.. Descour. Medical
! Inspector for the French Army recent
| ly wrote of Pastcur "Ona may look in
vain for work which can be compared
| with his and for discoveries from
which we have reaped greater bene-
fits
To France belongs the glory of
| Pasteur's life. but the matcrial benc-
fits of his work arc equally ours