page_title: Paul Gibier
section_title: New York Pasteur Institute
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Gibier / New York Pasteur Institute
caption_attribution_description: English: Bulletin of the New York Pasteur Institute December 1897 ad for medical products
context_page_description: Paul Gibier was a French doctor and bacteriologist, a researcher into contagious diseases, who founded the New York Pasteur Institute. This was a pioneering private research laboratory concerned with developing bio-medical cures including vaccines and anti-toxins. He was also known for his interest in psychic phenomena.
context_section_description: In 1890 Gibier founded the Pasteur Institute in New York for inoculation of people who had been bitten by rabid animals.
  The institute, headed by Paul Gibier and with Dr. C. Van Schaick as assistant and Dr. A. Liautard as consulting veterinarian, opened on 18 February 1890. In the year that followed 828 people went for treatment, of whom 643 were found to not be rabid.
  185 were inoculated, of whom none died. Those who could not afford to pay were treated free.
  Gibier emerged as a scientific impresario.
  He had the ability to win public interest in laboratory work and to gain financial and social support for founding the innovative independent laboratory that could undertake research and development of bio-medical cures. His institute laid the foundation for the modern bio-medical industry.
  Gibier may have originated the idea of using serotherapy in oncology when in 1893 he submitted the proposition to the Paris Academy of Sciences "to infuse to an animal, the juice of human tumor and to use the blood or the serum of this animal to infuse in the human harboring this tumor."
  Gibier successfully improvised new methods of culturing microbes and producing sera and antitoxins.
  In October 1893 a new building on Central Park West was formally dedicated, specially built for the institute.
  In December 1893 Gibier was the subject of a feature article in the New York Times.
  He became a member of the New York Academy of Medicine and of the Medical Association of New York.
  In 1895 he bought a 183 acres (74 ha) farm on the Nyack Turnpike, on the outskirts of Suffern, New York.
  It was about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of New York city.
  There he set up a "Pasteur Farm" where he bred animals for research and production of anti-toxins.
  A large wood and stone frame sanitorium was built in 1898 for patients, particularly those suffering from tuberculosis.
  Gibier edited the Therapeutic Review.
  This quarterly journal, later renamed the Bulletin of the New York Pasteur Institute, included accounts of studies by Gibier and his colleagues, translations of medical articles from French and German, reports on rabies treatments, and advertisements for medical devices and products for practitioners, including antitoxins and serum remedies. His institute was the first in the United States to produce a diphtheria antitoxin.
  Writing in the North American review Gibier advanced the view that the medical "priest" should lead the movement from "sentimental" to "scientific" religion. 
  He thought that only the doctor could diagnose diseases such as socialism and anarchy, and that with his knowledge of genetics he could "contribute to the purification of the race" through marriage counseling.
  In June 1900 Gibier was killed in an accident with a runaway carriage.
  The Banner of Light said that spiritualism had lost one of its truest friends with the transition of Dr. Gibier.
caption: Bulletin of the New York Pasteur Institute (December 1897) full-page ad for medical products
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