One of the most ingenious biologists of the nineteenth century was Louis Pasteur. His accomplishments can always induce respect in anyone hearing of his life. Pasteur was born in Dole, France in 1822. Later, he married to Marie Laurent and had five children. At that time, many horrible diseases ran rampant around Europe and caused great suffering. One of the most lethal diseases was typhoid fever. No medicine existed to treat this disease. Sadly, three of Pasteur’s children died of typhoid fever. This tragedy left Pasteur indignant, but worked to initiate and inspire in him a strong desire to save people from disease. Pasteur soon went to university to study physics and chemistry, specializing in the inherent properties of crystals. In his early research Pasteur worked helping to innovate the fermentation process to develop a way to pasteurize and kill germs. Pasteur then worked to insert this new knowledge into the textile industry, helping the workers to infer a cure to a disease that would often infect the silk worms. Never indifferent to human suffering, Louis Pasteur also found cures that doctors could inject to stop chicken cholera, anthrax and babies. These cures saved innumerable lives.
Another installment of Pasteur’s life, the Pasteur Institute was opened in 1888. This Institute worked to teach the people who were beginning to inquire about Pasteur’s work. It helped to spread his every insight, and soon Pasteur’s theories and methods were being taught around the world. During Louis Pasteur’s lifetime it was not always easy for him to convince others of his ideas, controversial in their time but considered absolutely correct today. Pasteur fought with unstoppable inertia to convince surgeons that germs existed and carried diseases, and dirty instruments spread germs and therefore incur disease. Pasteur taught these scientists and doctors how not to indulge in these bad habits. Pasteur’s instantaneous pasteurization process kills germs and can be used instead to inhibit the spread of disease.
Louis Pasteur’s indispensable contributions to microbiology and medicine were: instituting changes in hospital/medical practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes or germs, discovering that weak dorms of disease could be used as an instant immunization against stronger forms and that rabies was transmitted by viruses too small to be seen under the microscopes of the time, introducing the medical world to the concept of viruses. Louis Pasteur was indeed a great scientist and a great man, and an inspiration to scientists everywhere
Another installment of Pasteur’s life, the Pasteur Institute was opened in 1888. This Institute worked to teach the people who were beginning to inquire about Pasteur’s work. It helped to spread his every insight, and soon Pasteur’s theories and methods were being taught around the world. During Louis Pasteur’s lifetime it was not always easy for him to convince others of his ideas, controversial in their time but considered absolutely correct today. Pasteur fought with unstoppable inertia to convince surgeons that germs existed and carried diseases, and dirty instruments spread germs and therefore incur disease. Pasteur taught these scientists and doctors how not to indulge in these bad habits. Pasteur’s instantaneous pasteurization process kills germs and can be used instead to inhibit the spread of disease.
Louis Pasteur’s indispensable contributions to microbiology and medicine were: instituting changes in hospital/medical practices to minimize the spread of disease by microbes or germs, discovering that weak dorms of disease could be used as an instant immunization against stronger forms and that rabies was transmitted by viruses too small to be seen under the microscopes of the time, introducing the medical world to the concept of viruses. Louis Pasteur was indeed a great scientist and a great man, and an inspiration to scientists everywhere