The Work Of Louis Pasteur

Dr. Joseph Lister was able to reintroduce cleaniness to the medical field. He used carbolic acid to dress a wound to reduce the rate of infection. This relates to Louis Pasteur because the both of them believed in microbes being the reason for disease so they enforce washing your hands and boiling instruments.

Louis Pasteur was magnificently a genius. His life was an example of hard work and persistence. He was called “The father of modern hygiene, public health and much of modern medicine, as well as the father of microbiology and immunology.” As a scientist, he made many discoveries and experimentations that are benefits to human and animals. Although sometimes his claims raised controversies, Louis Pasteur investigated, revised deeper and deeper his claims to bring up more evidences that lead him to more and more discoveries. Today, because of his claims; we know the correlation or causation between putrefaction and fermentation. We know what makes the milk spoiled, and how to prevent people to overuse it by putting an expiring date on the gallon.

In 1854 Louis Pasteur became a professor of chemistry at Lille. Shortly after, he became interested in fermentation. This was very helpful since alcohol making was a huge industry there. His interest in fermentation resulted in Louis developing many other interests. “In 1857 he jumped around from chemistry, biology then to medicine (Miller, 2002).” In 1860 he discovered pasteurization to kill bacteria in many food and beverages. This made a huge impact on the world. With pasteurization there would now be fewer illnesses due to people ingesting bacteria and parasites.

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The intention of this paper is to examine the significant and enduring impact Louis Pasteur had on public health and wonderful advances in medicines and invention of vaccines. Louis Pasteur was a truly talented person who made many various discoveries in different areas of science. He invented Pasteurization, the process of treating milk free of damage causing microorganisms (Louis Pasteur, 2014). In 1843, Louis enrolled at the Ecole Normale Supe´rieure in Paris, where he focused in the origins of life. During the time he was professor in Strasbourg, France, he started investigating fermentation, which is a chemical process that breaks down organic substance. Pasteur became drawn to the field of transmittable diseases and the discovery of

The food industry has been using this process all over the world. He also developed the first vaccine for rabies where he was testing on dogs but no humans yet. He finally administered a boy to get bit by a rabid dog and the boy lived to be an adult. Pasteur was awarded the Rumford Medal for the discovery of racemic acid. Then he was awarded the Montyon Prize for experimental physiology. He was awarded the Copley medal for fermentation and became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and

Louis Pasteur was a scientist. He led many scientific discoveries particularly in the study of germs and living organisms. It is through the work of Pasteur that we know to wash our hands to prevent that spread of germs, that medical instruments need to be sterilized, and his research on germ theory led to the development of antibiotics. His initial motivation was a love of science, but his research and life events led him to ask important science questions that begged to be answered. After his initial research on crystallization and how polarized light passed through them he became associated with another scientist named Biot. It was after testing Pasteur’s theories that the two became good friends and colleagues. Pasteur’s work into the study of disease and vaccination was further spurred on when two of his daughters died of typhoid.

Who would have thought that soured beer would begin a study that would one day result in the discovery of several vaccines for deadly diseases? It all began when Bigo, a man who had manufactured beer from the sugar beet, went to see Pasteur. Louis Pasteur at the time was the Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Lille in France. Bigo asked Pasteur if he could discover why some of his beer became sour. Louis Pasteur used a microscope to study the vats of soured beer. He discovered that there were microorganisms in the beer. Because Louis Pasteur explored the possibility that these microorganisms were causing what is called putrefaction, a process of organic breakdown, he discovered many important facts. One of which was that microorganisms existed. He went on to explore the possibility that these microorganisms, or microbes, can be found airborne. Even when his peers scoffed at his ideas, Louis continued with his work. After discovering these microbes in wine, milk, and silkworms, Louis Pasteur believed that these microbes could affect human beings, that they could cause diseases.

His training began early when he was emitted to the “Petit École” (Rilke, 2011, p. 192), a school that invested time to decorative artists who learned about traditional eighteenth-century French art. While finishing his studies, he also learned about anatomical structure under the watchful eye of Antoine-Louis Barye, a French sculptor, giving him inspiration to become a sculptor.

Louis Pasteur's discovery of the relationship between germ and disease was only the beginning to developping a permanent solution. The theory led to the realization that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease and disinfection can eliminate germs. Disinfection and handwashing affected humanity because the rates of infectious disease began to decline and epidemics lasted for a shorter time spand and overall mortality decreased as a result. The introduction of the theory affected how humanity viewed the human body. People began to believe that dirt contained microorganisms and could cause an infection, which lead to bathing frequently. Alongside his discovery were his inventions, for example the machine used to screen and detect silkworm eggs which saved the European silk industry and helped prevent silkworm

Louis Pasteur began his discoveries in the late 1800’s by discovering asymmetry as a sign of life. While studying fermentation processes, he discovered that yeast itself was a living process. Pasteur then found how to observe microorganisms, by isolating and providing a growth medium, impacting the future of biotechnology. His discoveries provided the future of wine, beer, vinegar and dairy industries. Pasteur wondered why milk and meat were getting sour or decaying, so he began to experiment. Anton van Leeuwenhoek gave Pasteur the curiosity to see if molecules just spontaneously appear. By exposing grapes to the air resulting in fermentation, Pasteur discovered that germs come from the outside world. This brought the discovery of germs, which

This saved the silk industry. Eventually, he applied his knowledge to the medical industry by asking doctors to sterilize their medical instruments by heating them to prevent the spread of germs. After two of his children died of typhoid fever, Pasteur wanted to know if there was a way to protect the body from germs. When an anthrax epidemic broke out among animals, he discovered that the anthrax bacillus was the carrier of the disease. By using the heating method he used to kill the yeast in food, Pasteur heated the bacillus enough to weaken it, and then he injected it into the animals to allow their bodies to build up a resistance against the bacteria. It worked, and Pasteur eventually developed a vaccine for rabies and other infectious diseases like cholera and smallpox. Pasteur had many questions that motivated his discoveries. Where are the micro-organisms coming from that cause fermentation? Can the fermentation process be stopped? If fermentation can be stopped in food, can that same concept be applied to protect the body from infectious disease? Then there was the motivation initiated through the

Art has been a part of history before Christ was born and along the flow of time different styles and movements revolutionized what art means to the creator and audience. On the flow of time one of the branches that stood out in style, color, and expression through repetition was Impressionism. An artist that helped revolutionize Impressionism in his time was Oscar-Claude Monet, but the piece that stood out was the “Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur.”

Pasteur is best known for coming up with Pasteurization(named after him) which is a process in which bacteria are destroyed by boiling beverages and then cooling them. During this discovery, he also found out that microorganisms were responsible for spoiling wine and milk. When Pasteur found about Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination discovery he argued that if there is a vaccine for smallpox then there must be a vaccine for all diseases and that’s when he invented a vaccination for Rabies and Anthrax. Before his Germ theory, no one would sterilize their surgical equipment before performing a surgery which increased mortality rates during surgeries. Pasteur disproved Spontaneous Generation by performing an experiment using beef broth and flasks.

With the help of his influence and research, Louis Pasteur helped the world understand where germs came from, starting after he graduated from college in 1845 until he died in 1885. Joseph Lister took the research further by adapting the germ research and using disinfectants to improve post surgery recovery. Together they are remembered for their contribution to modern medical science, and so it is appropriate that a process and product are named for