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 a very curious man that is recognized as the founder of the term germ and many advances in the medical field. Pasteur wanted to prove a theory he had about immunity in which he asked questions about the potential success or failure and the reason why some people or animals didn't get as sick as others. These questions lead to his theory about early exposure to a weakened bacteria and the strength of the immune system within an organism. He decided to perform an experiment on sheep in which he gave a “vaccine” to a certain number of them and didn't give it to some others. Later he went back and exposed all off them to a stronger bacteria which killed the ones that weren't given the vaccinations. This discovery is the basis

Louis Pasteur was born in 1822 and he was the only son out of three sisters. As a child he lived in Dole near the Swiss border. His father served in the Peninsular War, but returned to a family owned tanning business. “Louis did quite well in school growing up, which was uncommon during this era (Miller, 2002).” Upon his graduation he went to Paris where he studied chemistry with 700 other students.

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Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the improved medical technologies that made the 20th and 21st-century epidemics rare and less lethal. It was in the 18th century that micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) were discovered, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disagreed with the spontaneous generation argument conclusively, crediting the germ theory and Robert Koch 's discovery of micro-organisms as the cause of disease transmission. Therefore, throughout the majority of the 19th century, there was only the most basic, understanding of the causes, amelioration and treatment of epidemic disease.

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

Louis Pasteur was born 27 December 1822 and grew up in a small village, Arbois in France. In school, he liked to paint and draw so his teachers encouraged him to work hard on that subject. However, his father thought that painting was just something Louis could do at his pastime and told him to study hard. Louis followed his advice and graduated in 1847 from a highly regarded school in Paris called École Normale Supérieure. There, he had studied molecular asymmetry and continued to examine it at the University of Strasbourg. Louis soon discovered that molecules that looked like they were the same could occur as mirror images of each other. The finding was a huge step forward in the microchemistry.

In December of 1822, Louis Pasteur was born in Dole Jura France where he was a third child. He was an average student who enjoyed fishing and sketching. Pasteur left for school in Paris but quickly because homesick. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1845 and the next year was appointed a professor at the Collége de Tournon. In 1848 he because a professor at the University of Strasbourg where he met his wife, Marie Laurent. Together they had five children, but only two survived to adulthood. The personal tragedies drove Pasteur to find a cure for infectious

The perceptions and activities of Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister and John Snow would reflectively be recognized as adding to the acknowledgment of germ hypothesis. In any case, it was the lab inquiries about of Louis Pasteur in the 1860s and afterward Robert Koch in the next decades that gave the logical verification to germ hypothesis. Their work opened the way to inquire about germs and potential life-sparing medications.

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.

It was the cusp of 1870, and an artist was born. On December 31st little Henri Matisse of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France came into this world. Within his first five years of living, Matisse’s brother was born, and died. In the beginning, Matisse did not have fervor for drawing or painting. Instead, he was eager to work in law. As most people who choose to be lawyers do, he attended law school in Paris. Subsequently returning home to clerk for a law office, Henri Matisse was diagnosed with appendicitis. It took a whole year to recover from this sickness. In the meantime, Matisse needed something to do, thus began his art career.

Matisse was born Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France on December 31, 1869 to his mother and father Anna Heloise Gerard and Emile Hippolyte Matisse. He was the first son of the couple. Matisse's father was a grain merchant and his mother made hats and painted China. He grew up in nearby Bohain-en-Vermandois until the age of ten, when his father sent him to St. Quentin for high school. In ways that area hadn't changed much since Roman times. The young Matisse was an awkward youth who seemed ill-adapted to the rigors of the North; he hated the gelid winters. He was a pensive child and by his own account he was dreamy, frail and

Louis Pasteur graduated in 1847 with a doctorate degree in chemistry and physics. He was asked to study the question, “could contamination that occurred during the fermentation, possibly prevent the development of good alcohol?” Louis visited factories where alcohol was made, took samples, and did studies. The conclusion he found was the yeast used in the fermentation process was a living organism and could cause the alcohol to turn bad. Through this discovery Louis found that germs are in living things. He helped solve many problems, including a disease that was found in Silk worms, chicken cholera, and rabies. Louis was involved in many studies involving germ theory that helped explain all infectious diseases. He was introduced to Joseph

Pasteur had already done work six years earlier with the disease chicken cholera, a disease that was to blame for the elimination of chicken flock in France. Through this one vaccine he produced for a single species of bird, he was able to discover the phenomena of virulence, or the harmful quality of a microorganism that causes the

When one considers the term “Art Nouveau,” what comes to mind most immediately is “images of a European-wide invasion [characterized] by the restless dynamism of organic form”(Silverman 1). For me it is usually the work of Alphonse Mucha– his mysterious women surrounded by the beauties of nature. Often my Art Nouveau fantasies take shape in the odd fungal-shaped stained-glass lamps of Tiffany. Or sometimes they surface as the romantic Parisian posters I’ve seen at Pier One, advertising champagne or cats noir or bicycles or the like. But no matter what ones notion may be of what Art Nouveau looks like, there is a feeling that accompanies it that is at the heart of the style’s appeal. It is difficult to define or describe what